Volume 1

Catalogue of the Wheeler gift of books : pamphlets and periodicals in the library of the American institute of electrical engineers / edited by William D. Weaver ... ; with introduction, descriptive ad critical notes by Brother Potamian.

  • American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Library.
Date:
1909
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Credit: Catalogue of the Wheeler gift of books : pamphlets and periodicals in the library of the American institute of electrical engineers / edited by William D. Weaver ... ; with introduction, descriptive ad critical notes by Brother Potamian. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2428. Stewart, Balfour (1828-1887) & W(illiam) W(inson) H(aldan) Gee. Lessons in elementary practical physics. Vol. II. ill. i2mo. London, 1887 Vol. II. Practical measurements in electricity and magnetism. —See also 1925. 2429. Belloc, Alexis. La telegraphie historique depuis les temps les plus recules jusqu’a nos jours, xi-f-343 pp. ill. L. 8vo. Paris, 1888 A considerable part of the book is devoted to the history of the mechanical telegraph. The remainder treats briefly of the electric telegraph and tel- ephone together with their uses for military purposes. 2430. Boggett, William. Key to the mysteries of water, electricity and heat. 70 pp. i2mo. London, 1888 The composition of water and its use for the preservation of health. —See also 2227. 2431. Bottone, S(elimo) R(omeo). Electrical instrument-making for amateurs. A practical handbook. Second edition. 183 pp. ill. i2mo. London, 1888 Serviceable book of instructions. —See also 2349. 2432. Hedges, Killingworth. Central-station electric lighting with notes on the methods used for the distribution of electricity. vii+128 pp. ill. plate. i2mo. London, (1888) —See also 2149. 2433- Pope, Franklin Leonard. (1840-1895.) American inventors of the telegraph. (Extract, The Century, New Ser., Vol. 13, pp. 924-944.) ill. 8vo. London, 1888 Clear statement of Vail’s claims to be considered the co-inventor with Morse of electric telegraphy. —See also 1753. 2434. Boggett, William. Life, what it is sustained by, and cognate subjects. 56 pp. i2mo. London, 1889 The author believes that “without heat there is no electricity and no elec- tricity without heat,” p. 35. —See also 2227. 2435. Brown, Harold P. Comparative danger to life of the alternating and continuous electrical currents. 61 pp. ill. 8vo. New York, 1889 “The nature of the alternating current is such that no possible precautions can afford protection to life except the limitation of the pressure to 300 volts;” electrocution experiments on dogs, calves, etc. 2436. Electrical distribution of heat, light and power, with partial list of deaths from electrical lighting apparatus, and address by John Murray Mitchell, on legislative control of dangerous electrical currents. 48 pp. i2mo. New York, 1889 The pamphlet contains illustrations showing the water-analogues of the series arrangement of lamps, the multiple-arc, the three-wire system, etc.