‎BEACH Commander 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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‎Ship and submarine design sets. In Russian /Komplekty chertezhey korabley i pod‎

‎Ship and submarine design sets. In Russian /Komplekty chertezhey korabley i podvodnykh lodok. M. Dosaaf 1954-1984 19pcs. Vortex: Model of Submarine with Mechanical Engine: Model of Submarine with Mechanical Engine: Model of Torpedo Boat: Model of Guard Ship Mars: Model of Torpedo Boat: Model of Aircraft Carrier: Model of Cruiser Varyag: Model of Aircraft Carrier: Model of Simple Icebreaker: Model of Cruiser Jupiter: Model of Big Hunter Uranus: Model of Destroyer Brave: Model of Cruiser 2nd rank Boyarin: Model of Destroyer Sirius: Model of Caterpillar Rocket Carrier: Model of Aircraft Carrier: Model of Destroyer Saturn: Model of Trawler. 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. SKUalb0279fa913cecd209.‎

‎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