‎BEACH Edward L.‎
‎SUBMARINE‎

‎Experimental Researches on the Transmission of Electric Signals through Submarine Cables. - Part I. Laws of Transmission through various lenghts of one Cable. Received May 20,- Read June 19, 1862. (Incl.) Appendix. Received January 14, 1863.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1863). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1862 - Vol. 152 - Part II. Pp. 987-1017. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of a main paper in the electrical theory of submarine cables.""An important paper of thirty quarto pages published in the ‘Transactions of the Royal Society’ for June 19, 1862, under the title ‘Experimental Researches on the Transmission of Electric Signals through submarine cables, Part I. Laws of Transmission through various lengths of one cable, by Fleeming Jenkin, Esq., communicated by C. Wheatstone, Esq., F.R.S.,’ contains an account of a large part of Jenkin’s experimental work in the Birkenhead factory during the years 1859 and 1860. This paper is called Part I. Part II. alas never appeared, but something that it would have included we can see from the following ominous statement which I find near the end of Part I.: ‘From this value, the electrostatical capacity per unit of length and the specific inductive capacity of the dielectric, could be determined. These points will, however, be more fully treated of in the second part of this paper.’ Jenkin had in fact made a determination at Birkenhead of the specific inductive capacity of gutta-percha, or of the gutta-percha and Chatterton’s compound constituting the insulation of the cable, on which he experimented. This was the very first true measurement of the specific inductive capacity of a dielectric which had been made after the discovery by Faraday of the existence of the property, and his primitive measurement of it for the three substances, glass, shellac, and sulphur"" and at the time when Jenkin made his measurements the existence of specific inductive capacity was either unknown, or ignored, or denied, by almost all the scientific authorities of the day."" (William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) in ""Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin"" by Robert Louis Stevenson).Jenkin, a British engineer, served as secretary of the British Association's Electric Standards Committee (formed in 1861), which was responsible for setting and naming the standard units of electrical quantity and resistance.‎

‎SD Submarine Cable System. [11 papers, see below]. - [THE FIRST TRANS-PACIFIC TELEPHONE CABLE]‎

‎(New York), American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1964. 8vo. Volume XLIII, September, No. 4, Part 1 and 2, 1964 of ""The Bell System Technical Journal"". In the original printed blue wrappers. Previous owner's stamp to front wrapper, and very light brownspotting to spine, otherwise a near mint copy. Pp. 1155-1479 + two folded plates, one loosely inserted.‎

‎First publication of AT&T's first submarine telephone cable across the pacific. It went from Japan to Hawaii, where it connected to two cables linking Hawaii with the mainland. This brought the same improvements to trans-Pacific service that the TAT-1 had brought to trans-Atlantic service in 1956. (See link below). Since the trans-Atlantic service opened in 1927, calls had traveled across the ocean via radio waves. But cables provide much higher signal quality, avoid atmospheric interference and offer greater capacity and security.Due to uncertainties in global politics, the economic involvement by the US government in the project was minimal. Papers contained in the present issue:1. Ehrbar, R.D." Fraser, J.M. Kelley, R.A. Morris, L.H. Mottram, E.T. Rounds, P.W. The SD Submarine Cable System. Pp. 1155-1184.2. Bowker, M.W. Nutt, W.G. Riley, R.M. Design of Armorless Ocean Cable. Pp. 1185-1208.3. Lerch, B.W. Phelps, J.W.Armorless Cable Manufacture. Pp. 1209-1242.4. Brewer, S.T. Dickinson, F.R. Von Roesgen, C.A. Repeaters and Equalizers for the SD Submarine Cable System. Pp. 1243-1273.5. Johansson, S.G.Manufacture of Rigid Repeaters and Ocean-Block Equalizers. Pp. 1275-1310.6. Holdaway, V.L. Van Haste, W. Walsh, E.J. Electron Tubes for the SD Submarine Cable System. Pp. 1311-1338.7. Bishop, J.D. Mottel, S.Cable Power Facility. Pp. 1339-1366.8. Ehrbar, R.D. A Cable Laying Facility. Pp. 1367-1372.9. Grismore, O.D.Cable and Repeater Handling System. Pp. 1373-1394.10. Gretter, R.W.Cable Payout System. Pp. 1395-1434.11. Butler, J.H. Altenburg, C.J. McSweeney, R.J." Sutton, L.E. Design and Powering of Cable Ship ""Long Lines"". Pp. 1435-1459.‎

‎Yellow Submarine N° 33 de Mars 2008. Dossier : Envies d'Utopie. Sommaire : Utopie et science-fiction, essai de typologie (Marie-Pierre Najman) - Ombres et lumières dans l'héritage de Campanella (Ugo Bellagamba) - De la démocratie en Amérique (et au-delà) (Ugo Bellagamba et Eric Picholle) - Escales chez Temporel (Jean-Marc Tomi) - Le rêve des étoiels comme utopie(s) (Raphaël Colson) - Helvéties rêvées, Helvéties réalisées (André-François Ruaud) - Fcition, Un soleil d'hexagones (David Calvo) - Zippies (Max Renn) - Ferals (Max Renn) - Dernières nouvelles de l'Utopie (Serge Halimi) - Fiction, Retour au pays natal (Jean-Pierre Hubert) - Lectures d'Utopie.‎

‎ Yellow Submarine, Moutons Electriques, 2008, 1 volume in-8 de 190 pages, broché.‎

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‎Navy. Russian Submarine Forces 1906 2006. 100 Years of the National Submarine Fl‎

‎Navy. Russian Submarine Forces 1906 2006. 100 Years of the National Submarine Fleet. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Voenno morskoy flot. Podvodnye sily Rossii 1906 2006. 100 let Otechestvennomu podvodnomu flotu. Under the editorship of Masorin V. M. Weapons and Technologies in 2006. 830s. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb6214fda99a56f5aa‎

‎The Malta and Alexandria Telegraph: Comprising of the following papers, [Forde:] I: The Malta and Alexandria Submarine Telegraph Cable. [Siemens:] II: On the Electricfal Tests. - [THE MALTA-ALEXANDRIA CABLE]‎

‎London, William CLowes and Sons, 1863. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers with Siemens's inscription to front wrapper: ""to Mr. A. L. Ternant / from Author"". With previous owner's stamp to lower part of front wrapper: ""A. L. Ternant"". Lacking upper part of spine, a few marginal annotations in pencil throughout. 50, (5) pp. + 3 large folded plates.‎

‎First printing of this important publication in the history of telegraphs cables with a most interesting presentation inscription: It was given by Siemens to A. L. Ternant, author to several early paper on submarine cables. The Malta-Alexandria cable was ordered by the British government, manufactured by John Pender, and constitute one of the very first submarine telegraph cables. ""The making and laying of the Malta to Alexandria cable gave rise to researches on the resistance and electrification of insulating materials under pressure, which formed the subject of a paper read before the British association in 1863. The effect of pressure up to 300 atmospheres was observed, and the fact elicited that the inductive capacity of gutta-percha is not affected by increased pressure, whereas that of india-rubber is diminished. The electrical tests employed during the construction of the Malta and Alexandria cable, and the insulation and protection of submarine cables, also formed the subject of a paper [the present]."" (Munro, Heros of the Telegraph, P. 72). The Malta-Alexandria cable was the first Siemens was involved in and the experience made him in 1874: ""design the cable ship Faraday and assisted in the laying of the first of several transatlantic cables that it completed. During the last fifteen years of his life he actively supported the development of the engineering profession and its societies and stimulated public interest in the conservation of fuel, the reduction of air pollution and the potential value of electric power in a wide variety of engineering applications.(DSB).In 1859 Glass, Elliot and Company received an order from the British Government to manufacture and lay a cable from Falmouth, England to Gibraltar. The government then changed the route to Rangoon - Singapore and finally to Malta - Alexandria, Egypt.‎