2000. 1st Edition. Tsien Hsue-shen (1911-2009) was a scientist who made important contributions to the missile and space programs of both the United States and the People’s Republic of China. NASA documents commonly refer to him at H. S. Tsien. During the 1940s, Tsien was one of the founders of..... More
1899. 1st Edition. FIRST PUBLISHED ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE ELECTRON IS A SUBATOMIC PARTICLE. Mention of J. J. Thomson’s report at the 1899 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement in Science in Dover “On the existence of masses smaller than atoms,” and published in the October 12 issue of..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1856. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF RARE AND PARTICULARLY CURIOUS PAPER OFFERING DETAILED IMPROVEMENTS TO SCHEUTZ'S FULLY FUNCTIONAL MODEL OF BABBAGE'S DIFFERENCE ENGINE by one of Babbage’s “most vigorous detractors” (Computer History Website). The credit of inventing the first computing machines goes to..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1858. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT OF A PAPER BY GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY (1801-1892). The original standards of length and weight were destroyed in the great fire at the Houses of Parliament in 1834. Airy undertook the exposition and experimentation to establish new national standards, presented..... More
Amsterdam. FULL VOLUME 1st AMSTERDAM EDITION OF AMONTONS’ DESCRIPTION OF HIS CONSTANT VOLUME AIR THERMOMETER, a device that functioned “independent of the atmospheric pressure). In other words, this is “Amontons' account of his invention of the first thermometer with which temperature was measured by the pressure of air."(Magie "A Source..... More
London: Taylor & Francis, 1919. 1st Edition. HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITION OF FRANCIS ASTON’S INVENTION OF THE MASS SPECTOGRAPH, AN INSTRUMENT USED OBTAIN & RECORD THE SPECTRAL CONTENT OF LIGHT. Aston was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “"for his discovery, by means if his mass spectrograph, of isotopes..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1845. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of the first experimental verification of the Doppler effect with sound waves. For this paper, “acoustic tests on the Dutch railway plus remarks on the theory of Professor Doppler,” “Buys” Ballot, a Dutch chemist and meteorologist, put a group of musicians..... More
1728. 1st Edition. First Edition of George Bernhard Bilfinger’s De Causa gravitatis physica generali disquisitio experimentalis (On the General Physical Cause of Gravity) – a prize winning explanation of the cause of the weight of bodies designed to check Galileo's and Edme Mariotte's theories. In so doing, Bilfinger discusses the..... More
New York: 1934. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE 1st PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION OF H. S. BLACK’S INVENTION OF THE ‘STABILIZED FEEDBACK AMPLIFIER, CONSIDERED BY SOME THE MOST IMPORTANT BREAKTHROUGH OF THE 20th CENTURY IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRONICS GIVEN ITS WIDE AREA OF APPLICATION (Wikipedia). Initially, Black’s idea – feeding..... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1951. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF BOHM-STAVER’S FIRST DISCUSSION OF WHAT WOULD BECOME KNOWN AS THE BOHM-STAVER FORMULA FOR THE VELOCITY OF SOUND IN METALS. The Bohm-Staver letter offered here represents the first discussion of “the explicit influence of electron interaction on..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1914. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT PRESENTATION ISSUE of Bohr's pivotal 1914 paper. An important test of Bohr's new model of the atom, the quantum theory he began to develop in his revolutionary 1913 'On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules;' as well, this paper is..... More
Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1896. 1st Edition. Handsomely bound FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF BOLTZMANN’S MOST IMPORTANT WORKS. Vorlesungen über Gastheorie [Lectures on Gas Theory] is Boltzmann's “masterpiece of theoretical physics. This work can rightly be considered the peak of development achieved in the modern kinetic theory of..... More
London: The Royal Society, 1899. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS (housed in a custom case) OF THE BOSE COHERER PAPER. Bose’s invention improved on Branly’s 1890 invention of the coherer. Note that we offer the Branly paper separately. The coherer is the radio signal detector used in the..... More
London: Taylor and Francis. 1st Edition. 1856 FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH & IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE PAPER IN WHICH CLAUSIUS FULLY PRESENTS HIS MILESTONE APPLICATION OF THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS, namely, that "Heat can never pass from a colder to a warmer body without some other change, connected..... More
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London: Harrison & Sons, 1878. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION & PRINTING OF A LONG & IMPORTANT PAPER IN THE HISTORY OF VACUUM PHYSICS BY BRITISH CHEMIST SIR WILLIAM CROOKES. In it, Crookes “looked at the effect of repulsion due to radiation on chemical precipitates, varied the characteristics of the radiation..... More
1802. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT OF AN EXPERIMENT BY DALTON, “one of a series of very accurate experiments and observations on the power of fluids to conduct heat” (Monthly Magazine, Volume 14, 153). The paper is part of a much larger paper, “The Power of Fluids to Conduct Heat”..... More
1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF A LENGTHY ILLUSTRATED ARTICLE ON THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY, then an experimental technology for transmitting telegraphy signals without wires (including radiotelegraphy). THE ARTICLE INCLUDES AN INTERVIEW WITH MARCONI. The article also describes the experiments of Hertz and Bose. Single issue..... More
1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS OF THREE 1816 papers by Humphrey Davy on his newly invented and quite famous safety lamp for use in mines, here translated into French and extracted from Bulletin de la Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, Vol. 142 April 1816. Historians often note that Davy’s invention of..... More
1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND DESCRIPTION of an invention some have argued rescued the Industrial Revolution, Humphrey Davy's Safety Lamp (this published prior to Davy's own 1818 book on the subject). "Two great events amazed Britain in 1815: the victory of Wellington over Napoleon and the..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1836. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, bound extract, OF THE PAPER IN WHICH GUSTAVE CORIOLIS DEFINES THE CORIOLIS EFFECT -- a phenomenon of the rotation of the earth causing weather phenomena to rise and move in a curved trajectory rather than progress a straight line. The Coriolis effect is..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1829. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF DOBEREINER’S LAW OF TRIADS. In this paper, Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner, a German scientist, was the first to classify elements into groups based on John Dalton’s assertions that the atoms of an element have a characteristic mass. In an attempt to..... More
2nd APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF TWO IMPORTANT PAPERS, FLEMING ON HIS VALVE & BARKLA’S 1st IN-DEPTH PAPER SHOWING THAT X-RAYS SCATTERED BY VARIOUS ELEMENTS PRODUCED BEAMS OF CHARACTERISTIC PENETRATION. Both papers were first read before The Physical Society of London on 23 March 1906; each was then printed in the..... More
London: Taylor and Francis, 1906. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS. FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF TWO IMPORTANT PAPERS, FLEMING ON HIS VALVE & BARKLA’S 1st IN-DEPTH PAPER SHOWING THAT X-RAYS SCATTERED BY VARIOUS ELEMENTS PRODUCED BEAMS OF CHARACTERISTIC PENETRATION. Both papers were first read before The Physical Society of London on..... More
London: 1851. FIRST DESCRIPTION IN ENGLISH of FOUCAULT’S 1st MECHANICAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE EARTH’S ROTATION, FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM. Also included is BOOLE’S FIRST PAPER ON THE LOGIC OF PROBABILITY. FOUCAULT: Copernicus explained the daily diurnal rotation of the earth on its polar axis in 1543, however it was Foucault, 300 years..... More
London: Harrison & Sons. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITIONS of Francis Galton’s important 1890 and 1891 papers providing a scientific basis and model for fingerprint identification and analysis, offered here in separate leather bound volumes. Galton provides a detailed statistical model of fingerprint analysis and identification and encourages its use; the..... More