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Shipwreck by Lightning. Papers relative to Harris's Lightning Conductors. Appendix.
London, Woodfall and Kinder, 1852. Folio. Contemp. hcloth. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper boards. (4),37 pp. and 3 fine aquatint plates: H.M. Ship Surinam (being struck by lightening), H.M. Ship Thisbe (on fire by lightening), H.M. Ship Scylla (in a perilous thunder squall).
""Sir William Snow Harris was an English physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMSBeagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin.""(Wikipedia).Ronalds, p. 230. -
On the Nature of Thunderstorms" and of the Means of protecting Buildings and Shipping against the destructive Effects of Lightening.
London, John W. Parker, 1843. Bound in a fine contemp. red full calf, richly gilt spine, covers profusely gilt a la cathedrale. All edges gilt. Inside gilt borders. Signed ""Hayes. Binder. Plymouth"" on bottom of inside frontcover. XIII,226 pp., 2 plates, textillustrations. Clean and fine.
First edition. ""Sir William Snow Harris was an English physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMSBeagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin.""(Wikipedia).
Rudimentary Magnetism: being a Concise Exposition of the general Principles of Magnetical Science and the Purposes to which it has been Applied. Part I, and II.
London, 1850. Small 8vo. Orig. full blindstamped cloth. Rebacked. Binding a little rubbed. VIII,160 pp. and 97 textillustrations.
Leçons élémentaires d'électricité ou exposition concise des principes généraux de l électricité et de ses applications,traduites et annotés par E.GARNAULT,
LACROIX E.,sans date (1865), in-12,reliure demi basane 264pp, figures in-t,
dos frotté,abimé,rousseurs eparses;
Leçons elementaires d'electricite ou exposition concise des principes generaux de l'electricite et de ses applications
Paris, Librairie Scientifique, Industrielle et Agricole, Eugène Lacroix, non daté (mais un cahier en fin de volume donne les dernières nouvautés de la bibliothèque Lacroix, il est daté de novembre 1865) . In-12° broché de 264+36 pages. Tres bon etat.
