London: Royal Society, 1877. 1877. ADAMS' & DAYS DEMONSTRATION THAT ELECTRICITY COULD BE PRODUCED FROM LIGHT WITHOUT MOVING PARTS AND LED TO THE MODERN SOLAR CELL” (Wikipedia). William Grylls Adams and Richard Evans Day write of their discovery of a completely new phenomenon – “that light had caused a flow..... More

London: The Royal Society, 1856. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION EXTRACT. This Airy paper contains the results of examination of the compass in two iron-built ships, and a general theory of the effect of the transient induced magnetism of iron in disturbing the direction of the compass-needle. Other than small tear..... More

1883. 1st Edition. Second, deluxe edition of “Ampère’s greatest work,” Theorie Mathematique… or Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience (DSB). Widely referred to as “the Principia of Electrodynamics,” with this work Ampère founded the science of electrodynamics, now known as electromagnetism. “Volta’s invention of..... 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

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1930. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FULL VOLUME, OF BLOCH’S SEMINAL INTRODUCTION OF THE SPIN-WAVE (MAGNONS) THEORY OF FERROMAGNETS. Also included is an important paper by Estermann and Stern, wherein they are “the first to demonstrate wave properties of particles larger than an electron… using crystal diffraction methods..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1890. 1st Edition. ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS, FIRST EDITION, OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE BRANLY EFFECT & THE INVENTION OF THE ‘COHERER’, THE FIRST WIDELY USED SIGNAL DETECTOR FOR RADIO COMMUNICATION. The paper offered here is housed in a custom pamphlet case. Note that we offer Bose's "iron-mercury-iron coherer..... More

1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRESENTATION of 'Brewster's Angle, "one of Brewster's most important contributions to the science of physics" (Molecular Expressions Website). David Brewster's work on polarization of light by reflection and biaxial crystals "is important for several reasons" (Young, Optics and Lasers, 241)."First, many lasers use Brewster windows..... More

London: Macmillan, 1932. 1st Edition. FULL VOLUME 1st EDITION of James Chadwick’s initial speculation about the "possible" existence of the neutron, a subatomic particle with no electrical charge and a mass slightly larger than that of a proton. When, three months later, Chadwick affirmed his discovery, his assertion rewrote then..... More

Lancaster: The American Physical Society, 1967. 1st Edition. TWO ISSUE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS of all three parts of Bryce DeWitt’s paper on quantum gravity, including the introduction of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Quantum gravity attempts to unify quantum mechanics (which describes the behavior of electromagnetism, the weak interaction and..... More

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THE FIRST BOOK IN ENGLISH ON TELEVISION. Handsomely cased in a pristine custom clamshell case, gilt-lettered at the spine and on the front board. Near fine. In 1922, Alfred Dinsdale (1896-1974) began a serious study of..... More

London: Harrison & Sons, 1927. 1st Edition. 1927 omputation of the coefficient of spontaneous emission of an atom (Wikipedia). He "supplied a systematic procedure for transferring the characteristic quantum phenomenon of discreteness of physical quantities from the quantum mechanical treatment of particles to a corresponding treatment of field. Employing the..... More

Leipzig: Barth, 1906. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of two important 1906 Einstein papers. Einstein wrote two papers on the photoelectric effect, his revolutionary 1905 paper and "Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption," his continuation of it. In them, Einstein employed Planck's theory that luminous energy can be absorbed..... More

FIRST EDITION OF TWO IMPORTANT PAPERS (extracts with text block intact) BY MICHAEL FARADAY, EACH PUBLISHED AS PART OF HIS LANDMARK TWENTY-NINE PAPER “EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES IN ELECTRICITY” SERIES. The papers discuss magneto-crystallic force and the abnormal behavior of various crystals in a magnetic field. Faraday “hoped that when ‘properly understood’..... More