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Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark by Thomson, William, first Baron Kelvin

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Title: Autograph letter signed to Latimer Clark
Author: Thomson, William, first Baron Kelvin
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1875. Very Good. Thomson, William, first Baron Kelvin (1824-1906). Atuograph letter signed to Latimer Clark. Glasgow, February 5, 1875. 4pp. 177 x 112 mm. Traces of mounting present. Provenance: Latimer Clark. The Scottish physicist William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) became involved in Cyrus Field's Atlantic cable enterprise in late 1856 or early 1857, when he was named to the board of directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company. Thomson, who "saw telegraphy as an integral part of mathematical physics" (Smith and Wise 1989, 666), took a scientific approach to the design and construction of long-distance submarine cables and signaling equipment, applying theoretical principles he had learned through his studies of electrical phenomena. Thomson's recommendations were opposed by the Atlantic Telegraph Company's supervising electrician, E. O. Wildman Whitehouse, a self-taught engineer whom Field had put in charge of designing and manufacturing the cable. Whitehouse had little use for theory, which he believed had no place in the practical world of commercial enterprise; however, his disdain for theoretical knowledge proved disastrous, for his designs were fundamentally unsound, and the first complete Atlantic cable, laid in 1858, failed only weeks after it had been installed. The superiority of Thomson's scientific approach to submarine telegraphy was brought out in a subsequent government investigation, and later undersea cables were constructed to Thomson's recommendations. Thomson's letter to Clark is concerned with his attempt to get Clark into the Royal Society, for which he had solicited the support of no fewer than seven Royal Society members including British engineer Fleeming Jenkin (1833-85), who served with Thomson and Clark on the important Committee on Standards of Electrical Resistance of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; Allen Thomson (1809-84), "the first of the great biological teachers of the nineteenth century" (DNB); Scottish astronomer Robert Grant (1814-92); Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy (1801-92), with whom Clark had worked to develop a country-wide telegraphic system for reporting Greenwich Mean Time; electrical engineer Charles Walker (1812-82), sender of the first submarine telegraph message; and Thomson's close friend George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903), Lucasian professor of physics at Cambridge, whose discovery of the nature of fluorescence had important ramifications for spectroscopy. Also mentioned as helping in this project is James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79). Thomson's attempt apparently failed, as Clark was not elected to the Royal Society until 1889. Origins of Cyberspace 205. .

[Medical Profession in the State of New Jersey], Gardner's Syrup Hydriodic Acid and Gardener's Syrup Ammonium Hypophosphite by R.W. Gardner, Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Chemists

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Title: [Medical Profession in the State of New Jersey], Gardner's Syrup Hydriodic Acid and Gardener's Syrup Ammonium Hypophosphite
Author: R.W. Gardner, Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Chemists
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description: New York: R.W. Gardner, Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Chemists, 1903. [EPHEMERA] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM] [MEDICAL] [MAP] [SHAPE BOOK]. 4to (10" x 5") ; [28]pp; color printed die-cut in the shape of the state of New Jersey; stiff wrapper printed by chromoxylography; 2 staple binding; printed recto only; small closed-tears on edges of wrapper and the last 4 pages, light soiling to rear wrapper, light creasing; very good plus. OCLC locates 1 copy at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia. An advertising pamphlet from the pharmaceutical firm R.W. Gardner in the shape of the state of New Jersey, providing information to physicians on the medical profession in the state and also on their manufactured syrups.

Vogue's Manual of Smart Service and Table Setting by VOGUE, The Editors

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Title: Vogue's Manual of Smart Service and Table Setting
Author: VOGUE, The Editors
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: The Conde Nast Publications, Inc, 1930. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. First edition. 8vo; 90pp; blue cloth over board, stamped silver lettering to front cover; illustrated with drawings and black and white photographs; light scuffing and sunning to cover, light age toning to endpapers; very good.

Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel

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Title: Robinson Crusoe
Author: Defoe, Daniel
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Norwalk: Easton Press, 1976. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. Introduction by J. Cuthbert Hadden. Near Fine. Dark blue leather, scuffed at the top edges, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges, sewn-in bookmark, and with the original laid-in receipt and unused bookplate. Published as part of the 100 Greatest Books series.

Aug. 6th Protest. No More Hiroshimas! Get Out of Vietnam! [handbill]

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Title: Aug. 6th Protest. No More Hiroshimas! Get Out of Vietnam! [handbill]
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Description: [San Francisco, CA]: Vietnam Day Committee (VDC), [c196-?]. Handbill. 8.5x11 inch double-sided handbill; slightly foxed, minor folding creases. Good. Speakers include Peter Camejo and others, backside includes groups supporting the action.

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