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 about Manuscripts of H. S. Tsien 1938-1955. Taiyuan Shi : Shanxi jiao yu chu ban she, 2000
American Microscopical Society. 1st Edition. 138 ISSUES IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY, these published from 1950 to 1986 (volumes 69-105, missing only 6 issues with those noted below). The papers published in the Transactions cover every facet of microscopy as it relates to every... More about The Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 1950-1986, Volumes 69 to 105 (138 Issues,...
New Haven: G. P. Putnam & Co., 1854. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A SEMINAL PAPER by David Alter announcing the invention of spectral analysis, the revolutionary idea that every element has its own emission spectrum. A critical development in spectroscopy, Alter studied atomic spectra, the light given off by... More about "On certain Physical Properties of Light produced by the Combustion of Different Metals in...
Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OFFPRINT OF A LANDMARK WORK ON GLOBAL WARMING AND THE FIRST ACTUAL EXPLORATION OF THE 'GREENHOUSE EFFECT.' Building on Joseph Fourier’s earlier work, Arrhenius here presents his discovery of the absorption of radiation by the atmosphere, thus and providing the first quantitative..... More about "Ueber den Einfluss des atmosphärischen Kohlensäuregehalts auf die Temperatur der...
London: Macmillan, 1972. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, BOUND, OF “THE FIRST EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF NEAR-FIELD MICROSCOPY” (Wolf, Progress in Optics, 151). Using electromagnetic radiation (microwaves with A = 3cm), E. A. Ash and G. Nicholls describe in detail the first experimental realization of a super-resolution microscope (Wiesendanger, Scanning Probe Microscopy... More about “Super-resolution Aperture Scanning Microscope” in Nature 237, June 30, 1972, pp. 510-512
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE INVENTION OF THE DOUBLE FOCUSING SPECTROMETER. In 1936, Kenneth Bainbridge and Edward Jordan built a double focusing spectrometer at Harvard University. In 1919 Aston developed the first really good mass spectrograph, an instrument for measuring the masses of isotopes; his apparatus gave accuracies... More about “Mass Spectrum Analysis 1. The Mass Spectrograph 2. The Existence of Isobars of Adjacent...
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 about “Akustische Versuche auf der Niederlandischen Eisenbahnm nebst gelegenlichen Bemerkungen zur...
London: Taylor and Francis, 1904. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE BRACE EXPERIMENT, "THE FIRST OPTICAL EXPERIMENT MEASURING THE RELATIVE MOTION OF EARTH AND THE LUMINIFEROUS AETHER WHICH WERE SUFFICIENTLY PRECISE TO DETECT MAGNITUDES OF SECOND ORDER TO V/C" (Wikipedia). Brace's results were negative, "which was of gret importance for... More about "On Double Refraction in Matter moving through the Aether" (Brace) WITH "On the...
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1934. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF NATURE’S SPECIAL 11 PAGE SUPPLEMENT ON LIQUID CRYSTALS BY NOBEL PRIZE WINNER SIR WILLIAM BRAGG. This is the first time “a coherent story has been made of the optical principles [of liquid crystals] by which their characteristic behaviour is exhibited” (Editors..... More about “Liquid Crystals” [Special Supplement] in Nature 133, No. 3360, March 24, 1934
1829. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of the second paper Robert Brown wrote on the subject of Brownian motion, the random motion of microscopic particles suspended in a liquid. Brownian motion is sometimes referred to as particle theory. In this paper, Brown discusses the observations of others, describes additional observations that... More about "Additional Remarks on Active Molecules" in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1922. 1st Edition. SCARCE CONTEMPORARY JOURNAL REPRINT "A Photo-electric Theory of Color Vision" is Clark's challenge to the other theories holding sway at that time; among them, that of Young-Helmholz, the Hering and Ladd-Franklin theory, Leboucq's, Joly's, and Cajal's. CONDITION & DETAILS: Baltimore: John Hopkins University. Bound... More about "A Photo-electric Theory of Color Vision" in the Journal of the Optical Society of...
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Bart, 1854. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION of the seminal paper in which Clausius fully presents his milestone formulation of the second law of thermodynamics, namely, that "Heat can never pass from a colder to a warmer body without some other change, connected therewith, occurring at the same... More about "Ueber eine veränderte Form des zweiten Hauptsatzes der mechanischen Wärmetheoriein"...
New York: AAAS, 1970. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PICTURES OF INDIVIDUAL ATOMS WITHIN A MOLECULAR STRUCTURE. Note that this paper includes those photographs. “Although individual atoms [had] been produced by field ion microscopes, there previously had been no way to reveal a single atom within a molecular... More about “Visibility of single atoms” in Science 168, No. 3937, pp. 1338–1340, June 12, 1970
London: W. Bulmer, 1810. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, BOUND FULL VOLUME of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the Year MDCCCX (1810), PARTS I & II, complete with 15 plates. Among the many papers included is Sir Humphry Davy’s announcement of the “discovery” of the new..... More about Researches on the Oxymuriatic Acid, Its Nature and Combinations; And on the Elements of the...
Philadelphia: Franklin Institute, 1853. 1st Edition. 1853 PAPER BY MICHAEL FARADAY (reprinted from the London Athenaeum) PROVING THAT THE SUPERNATURAL PHENOMENA OF TABLE-TURNING HAPPENS AS THE RESULT OF PARTICIPANTS UNCONSCIOUSLY MOVING THE TABLES THEMSELVES. This remains the accepted explanation today. “Table-turning was among the many supernatural phenomena that caught the public’s..... More about "Experimental Investigation of Table-Moving" in Journal of the Franklin Institute 56...
London: Taylor and Francis, 1855. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF A “SEMINAL” WORK, FICK’S CLASSICAL EQUATION OF DIFFUSION (Philibert, Fick, Einstein, Before and Beyond, 2005, 3). The laws Fick presents in this paper remain “the empirical foundations of many phenomena in the macroscopic world” and were..... More about “On Liquid Diffusion”, The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal...
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1855. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF A “SEMINAL” WORK, FICK’S CLASSICAL EQUATION OF DIFFUSION (Philibert, Fick, Einstein, Before and Beyond, 2005, 3). The laws Fick presents in this paper remain “the empirical foundations of many phenomena in the macroscopic world” and were of significant import to..... More about “Über Diffusion” (Fick, pp. 59-86) WITH “Ueber die Zusammensetzung von Spectralfarben”...
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1948. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF THREE SIGNIFICANT PAPERS: (1) GABOR PAPER: Gabor’s initial announcement of the “invention and development of the holographic method”; at that time, he called his new technology an ‘electron interference microscope’ (Nobel Prize; Gabor, Nature, 161, 1948, p. 778). “The..... More about Gabor, D. [Dennis] WITH Berriman, R. W. WITH Herz, R. H. “A New Microscopic Principle”...
London: Royal Society, 1949. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF GABOR’S FIRST EXTENSIVE PRESENTATION OF HIS 1971 NOBEL PRIZE WINNING “INVENTION & DEVELOPMENT OF THE HOLOGRAPHIC METHOD” (Nobel Prize). This work includes Gabor’s first use of the word ‘hologram’ as well as three photographic plates. In 1948 Gabor sent a...... More about “Microscopy by Reconstructed Wavefronts” in Proceedings of the Royal Society London A 197,...
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 about "The Patterns in Thumb and Finger Marks; on their Arrangement into naturally distinct...
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1963. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF GLAUBER'S NOBLE PRIZE WINNING QUANTUM THEORY OF OPTICAL COHERENCE, the quantum mechanical basis of different types of light. Glauber’s seminal theory, at first controversial but now widely used in the field of quantum optics, differentiates between laser (coherent) light..... More about "The Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence" in Physical Review 130, 1963, pp. 2529-2539
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1963. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF GLAUBER'S NOBLE PRIZE WINNING QUANTUM THEORY OF OPTICAL COHERENCE, the quantum mechanical basis of different types of light. Glauber’s seminal theory, at first controversial but now widely used in the field of quantum optics, differentiates between laser..... More about "The Quantum Theory of Optical Coherence" in Physical Review 130, No. 6, June 15, 1963,...
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1954. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING CONSTRUCTION OF THE FIRST AMPLIFICATION AND GENERATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES BY STIMULATED EMISSION -- THE FIRST AMMONIA MASER. Townes coined the word 'maser' for this device, an acronym for microwave amplification by... More about "Molecular Microwave Oscillator and New Hyperfine Structure in the Microwave Spectrum"...
London: John William Parker, 1839. 1st Edition. THREE ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION ARTICLES ON THE DIVING BELL. The illustrations, respectively, are titled “Man Equipped in Klingert’s Armour Preparatory to Diving,” “Dr. Halley’s Diving Bell,” and “Spalding’s Diving Bell.” “Dr. Halley’s Diving Bell” appears as the cover illustration. Diving bells designed by John Taisnier..... More about “On Diving” WITH “The Diving Bell. Part I” WITH “The Diving Bell. Part II, Spalding’s...
London: Royal Society. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF EDMUND HALLEY'S DESCRIPTION OF HIS DIVING BELL. The Phil Trans is the oldest continuously published journal of an academy of science. As such, the Phil Trans established the important principles of scientific priority and peer review that have become the... More about "The Art of Living under Water: Or, a Discourse concerning the Means of Furnishing Air at...