Genève, Sté générale d'imprimerie, 1914, un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, 1 PORTRAIT de Raoul PICTET, 287pp., 2 PLANCHES DEPLIANTES
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- ENVOI DE Raoul PICTET à Antoine LECLERC ainsi libellé : "A Monsieur Antoine LECLERC ; hommage et reconnaissance - signé Raoul PICTET 19 Août 1914" ---- "After studying physics and chemistry in Geneva and Paris, PICTET returned to his native city and devoted himself to experimentation in the physics of low temperatures with an eye to the fast-growing and lucrative refrigeration industry. A compression refrigeration system that he developed, with sulfur dioxide as its cooling medium, functioned at a much lower pressure than competing systems ; contact with water, however, often turned the refrigerant into corrosive sulfurous acid. This system, protected by a number of patents, was marketed with some success. It was PICTET's researches that led to a scientific achievement which at once made him internationally famous. In December 1877, when Louis Paul CAILLETET was about to report his liquefaction of oxygen to the Paris Academy of Sciences, PICTET cabled from Geneva that he had achieved the same feat...". (DSB X p. 604) ---- L'oxygène et ses emplois industriels - Nouveau procédé pour la fabrication continue du gaz à l'eau - Etude critique du procédé appelé la rétrogradation utilisé et breveté par G. CLAUDE - Du rôle de l'azote pur dans l'industrie contemporaine - Du rôle capital de l'azote chimiquement pur dans la conquête de l'air**4145/41450/o6DE-CAV.F2
"PICTET, RAOUL. (RAOUL-PIERRE).- THE PROCESS OF LIQUEFACTION OF OXYGEN AND NITROGEN INVENTED.
Reference : 44229
(1878)
Paris, G. Masson, 1878. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In: ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 5e Series - Tome 13. 576 pp. a. 2 large folded engraved plates. (Entire volume offered). Pictet's paper: pp. 145-228. 1 full-page illustration in woodcut of his apparatus.
First appearance of a milestone paper in chemistry - issued at the same time in Geneva - in which Pictet announced and described his invention of the liquefaction-process of oxygen and nitrogen - the first liquefaction of an atmospheric gas.""It was Pictet's researches that led to a scientific achievement which at once made him internationally famous. In december of 1877, when Louis Paul Cailletet was about to report hisliquefaction of oxygen to the Paris Academy of Sciences, ictet cabled from Geneva that he hadachieved the same feat. Cailletet and Pictet had worked independently and by different methods. While Cailletet's method had been to compress, cool and expand the gas to be liquefied, Pictet had employed the ""cascade"" process, in which the refrigeration cycles of three different cooling media with successively lower critical temperatures were arranged in series, so that the gas liquefied in first would act as a cooolant in the liquefation of the next. ictet used sulphur dioxide in the first cycle, carbon dioxide in the second and oxygen in the last. Although Cailletet could establish a priority of a few weeks, Pictet has been allowed to share the credit for the first liquefaction of an atmospheric gas.""(DSB X, pp. 604-5).
Genève et Paris, Georg et Alcan, 1897, un volume in 8 relié en demi-basane havane (reliure postérieure), 19pp., 596pp., 3 PLANCHES dépliantes
---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- Seconde édition ---- "After studying physics and chemistry in Geneva and Paris, Pictet returned to his native city and devoted himself to experimentation in the physics of low temperatures with an eye to the fast-growing and lucrative refrigeration industry. A compression refrigeration system that he developed, with sulfur dioxide as its cooling medium, functioned at a much lower pressure than competing systems ; contact with water, however, often turned the refrigerant into corrosive sulfurous acid. This system, protected by a number of patents, was marketed with some success. It was Pictet's researches that led to a scientific achievement which at once made him internationally famous. In December 1877, when Louis Paul Cailletet was about to report his liquefaction of oxygen to the Paris Academy of Sciences, Pictet cabled from Geneva that he had achieved the same feat...". (DSB X p. 604) ---- La théorie matérialiste pure - Origines de la physique expérimentale - La méthode scientifique - Développement logique de la physique expérimentale - Les entités réelles de la physique expérimentale - Les entités rationnelles de la physique expérimentale - Relations simples entre l'astronomie, la physique et la chimie - Le potentiel en astronomie, en physique, en chimie - Le matérialisme et le spiritualisme en face des phénomènes de la nature morte - La gravitation et la pesanteur en face du matérialisme - Objection déduite des différences fondamentales entre le potentiel des gaz comprimés et celui de la gravitation, de la cohésion et de l'affinité - Dissociation des corps - Les entités logiques en biologie - Les entités logiques chez l'homme - Synthèse de l'homme libre - l'homme et les limites de la liberté - La liberté collective - etc**8640/K6
Paris, imprimerie Alcan-lévy, 1896-1898, in-8, 2 pièces en 1 vo!, Demi-basane brune, dos lisse et fileté, Les pièces sont reliées dans l'ordre suivant : - J. Reyval, E?clairage de demain : l'acétylène (Paris, impr. Alcan-Levy, c. 1898). 74-[2] pp et [2] pp. d'annonce. Sans page de titre. Figures dans le texte. - Raoul Pictet, L'acétylène, son passé, son présent, son avenir. Genève, impr. W. Kündig, 1896. 187 pp. Figures et reproductions photographiques dans le texte. L'acétylène, élément chimiques, découvert durant la première moitié du XIXe siècle, a longtemps servi à l'éclairage Dos épidermé. Cachet annulé de l'Institut catholique de Paris. Couverture rigide
Bon 2 pièces en 1 vo!.
Genève, Georg & cie. 1896 596pp., 25cm., br.orig., non coupé, bon état, [Cfr. Caillet no.8655], Q81460
Genève-Bale-Lyon, H.Georg 1879 152pp.+ 6 grandes planches dépliantes, 24cm., br.orig., bon état, [tiré des "Archives des sciences de la bibliothèque universelle"], W89440
Genève, Georg, 1896, grand et fort in 8° broché, XVII-596pp., 2 planches dépliantes, couverture très abîmée avec manques, dos factice.
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"CAILLETET, L. - RAOUL PICTET - THE LIQUEFACTION OF OXYGEN A BREAKTHROUGH IN LOW-TEMPERATURE CHEMISTRY.
Reference : 47000
(1877)
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1877. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 85, No 26 (entire issue offered). With htitle and titlepage to vol. 85. Titlepage with a stamp on verso, seen on front. Pp. 1185-1248. Cailletet's paper: pp. 1213-1214. Pictet's paper: pp. 1214-1217. With an illustration of the apparatus in the text.
First printing of these two milestone papers in Low-temperature Chemistry. This process of liquefaction of oxygene was achieved independently, in the same year, by Cailletet and Pictet, using different methods. Cailletet used the Joule-Thomson effect"" oxygen was cooled while highly compressed, then allowed to rapidly expand, cooling it further, resulting in the production of small droplets of liquid oxygen. Pictet's method was more elaborate, using compounds pumps. (This compound is shown on the illustration in the text).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1877 C. - Magee ""Source Books in Physics"" p. 192-93 (Cailletet) and pp. 194-96 (Pictet).
H Mendès (fin XIXe début XXe), bibliophile, agent général de la compagnie Raoul Pictet.
Reference : 008161
H Mendès (fin XIXe début XXe), bibliophile, agent général de la compagnie Raoul Pictet. L.A.S., 15 août 1885, 1p in-8. Il demande à recevoir les catalogues de Durel. [262]