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‎On an Integrating Machine having a New Kinematic Principle. (James Thomson). (+) On an Instrument for calculating (.........), the Integral of the Product of two given Functions. (+) Mechanical Integration of the Linear Differential Equations of the S...‎

‎London, Taylor and Francis, 1876-79. Witout wrappers as three issues from ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London"", Vol. 24, No. 167+ Vol. 27, No.187+ Vol. 28, No. 191. Pp. 250-344, pp. 284-408 a. pp. 103-232. Papers: In No. 167:pp. 262-265 (James Thomson), pp. 266-68, pp. 269-271, pp. 271-275. In No. 187: pp. 371-373. In No. 191: pp. 111-113 (W. Thomson). Titlepages to vols. 24, 27 a. 28 present. 2 papers with textillustrations.‎

‎First appearance of all the 6 founding papers around the invention of the ""Harmonic Analyzer"" and with the mathematical theory for the differential analyzor, containing both the mathematical theories and the practical descriptions of the analyzer and further also having the paper by Lord Kelvin's brother (the first paper offered) in which the machinery is shown for the first time.""A ball and disk integrator was the vital invention needed to build the FIRST AUTOMATIC ANALOG COMPUTING MACHINES. Lord kelvin used this integrator -devised for a planimeter in the 1860s by his brother, James Thomson - on two new kinds of analog computers: a harmonic analyzer and a tide predictor. he later specified a more general machine - a differential analyzer.""(Eames in ""A Computer Perspective"").""The harmonic analyzer was used in conjunction with Thomson's tide predictor...The present paper (""Harmonic Analyzer"") contains the first full description of the harmoniz analyzer, which was ""designed rudimentally"" (p. 371) in Thomson's ""On an integrating machine having a new kinematic principle""(also offered here),,,,James Thomson's integrator - ""one of the first really workable integrating devices"" (Williams 1985, 207) - served as the basis for other analog machines designed by William Thomson for solving simultaneous linear equations and integrating differential equations. Thomson first described such a machine, composed of several Thomson integrators connedted together, in his paper on ""Mechanical integration of the linear differentialequations of the decond order...."" (also offred here)"" however the ""idea could then hardly be carried out, forone reason because an integrator, which is simply a variable- speed drive, could not then be buitl both accurate and capable of carrying sufficient load to move numerous mechanical parts"" (Bush 193, 450). The full realization of Thomson's idea did not come until fifty years later, when Vannevar Bush invented the torque amplifier for use in his differential analyzer.""(Hook and Norman).‎

‎The Tordenskjold-expedition. 71 albumen prints from the 1860'ies to 1873. - [FINE COLLECTION OF EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM EAST-ASIA DOCUMENTING THE LAYDOWN OF THE FIRST TELEGRAPH CABLES IN EAST-ASIA]‎

‎1870-1872. Folio-oblong (395 x 320 mm). Original brown half calf, recased - the original cloth (with gilt lettering to the front) has been expertly mounted on to the new boards, and most of the original gilt leather spine has been preserved over a perfectly matching new lovely brown half calf. ""Tordenskjold / 1870 - 1873"" in gilt lettering, partly worn of, to front board. End-papers renewed. 71 albumen print in various sizes and by various photographers (see below) mounted on 59 contemporary white cardboard leaves (measuring 370 x 310 mm), all re-hinged. The album was water-damaged at some point, but has been expertly and neatly retored and appears in overall very good condition with good tones. 1, Oval photo of Tordenskjold (205 x 60mm) 2, Photo of Tordenskjold (190 x 143 mm) 3, Crew aboard Tordenskjold (200 x 14 mm) 4, Crew aboard Tordenskjold (157 x 128 mm) 5, Crew and equipment aboard Tordenskjold (228 x 176 mm) 6, Naval officers about Tordenskjold (167 x 130 mm). 7, 8 small photos of various places on one plate (274 x 190 mm) 8, The harbor of Port Said. By Hippolyte Arnoux (247 x 190mm) 9, Muddigging machines in the channel of Port Said. By Hippolyte Arnoux. (245 x 190mm) 10, Port Said. By Hippolyte Arnoux. 11, Malta (262 x 207 mm) 12, Two photos of Malta (each measuring 134 x 120 mm) 13, Two photos of Gibraltar (Each measuring 148 x 114) 14, Deep Water Bay, Hong Kong (194 x 130 mm). 15, Two photos depicting telegraph-house and ships in Deep Water Bay (each measuring 150 x 112) 16, Boat with people. By Felice Beato, coloured (294 x 235 mm) 17, House next to river. By John Thomson, December 1870 (278 x 225 mm) 17, Seamen’s hospital in Hong Kong. (261 x 190 mm) 18, Hong Kong. (270 x 195 mm) 19, Hong Kong, by Floyd (270 x 192 mm) 20, Hong Kong, by Floyd (240 x 190 mm) 21, Two photos of sites in Hong Kong (each measuring 165 x 127 mm) 22, Five Persians in Hong Kong (215 x 244 mm) 23, Group of women in Hong Kong, (326 x 215 mm) 24, Two photos of Hong Kong harbour, one photo depicting “Cella” (182 x 105" 130 x 98 mm) 25, Villa at Canton. (264 x 190 mm) 26, Pagode in Xuexiu Park, Guangdong. By William Pryor Floyd. (195 x 246 mm) 27, Boats in Canton. William Pryor Floyd,(270 x 223 mm) 28, Pou-Ting-Qua’s Garden, Canton. By John Thomson. (289 x 230 mm) 29, Fields in Canton. (205 x 155 mm) 30, Houses in Canton. (267 x 210 mm) 31, Canton harbor. By John Thomson. (245 x 202 mm) 32, Boat on the Canton river. (274 x 204 mm) 33, Wall around Canton. (260 x 200 mm). 34, Boats in Canton (293 x 225) 35, Telegraphstation in Woosung. (150 x 110 mm) 36, Boats in Foochow. (287 x 232 mm) 37, Temple in Foochow. By John Thomson (190 x 237 mm) 38, Pagode in Foochow. Presumably by John Thomson. (287 x 220 mm). 39, Tomb of Fou Tcheou. By John Thomson. (290 x 225 mm). 40, Temple in Shanghai. (237 x 188 mm). 41, Shanghai. (232 x 176 mm) 42, Chaochow bridge, Kwangtung. By John Thomson. (266 x 204 mm). 43. Panorama of Nagasaki consisting of two photos. (371 x142 mm) 44, Two photos of Nagasaki. Felice Beato. (Each measuring 169 x 119 mm). 45, Two photos from Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (Each measuring 165 x 118 mm) 46, Two photos from Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (Each measuring 165 x 118 mm) 47, Temple in Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (169 x 118 mm). 48, Photo of Japanese woman in kimono. By Felice Beato. (205 x 255 mm). 49, Two photos of officers in house in Yokohama. (162 x 125 mm). 50, The Abbot and Monks of Kushan Monastery. By John Thomson. (287 x 204 mm). 51, Wooden structure, presumably Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (270 x 208 mm) 52, Pagode, presumably Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato. (234 x 185 mm) 53, Cityscape with lake, presumably Nagasaki. Presumably by Felice Beato.. (280 x 228 mm). 54, Two photos, cemetery and stairs to temple. By Felice Beato. (Each measuring 168 x 118 mm). 55, People standing outside house, presumably Hong Kong. By John Thomson. (185 x 155 mm) 56, Guangzhou Great Norh Gate, Canton. By John Thomson (245 x 156 mm). 57, Two photos, one of the building of a telegraph station (presumably in Wladivostok) and a view of Wladivostok from the sea (154 x 123 130 x 99 mm). 58, Seascape of two ships. (130 x 140 mm). 59, Ship laying for anchor. (170 x 123 mm)‎

‎Exceedingly rare photo-album documenting the Danish vessel Tordenskjold’s mission in laying the very first telegraph cables in East Asia thereby connecting China and Japan to the global telegraph system. The album consists of photos taken aboard the vessel Tordenskjold, of Tordenskjold itself along with its crew, by an unknown photographer, and of photographs of the visited cities and surrounding areas by some of the finest photographers operating in East Asia at the time, such as John Thomson, William Floyd, Felice Beato and, in Egypt, Hippolyte Arnoux - all photographs presumably brought home by William Lund, Captain on board Tordenskjold. The present album depicts a pivotal moment in international relations and communications and does so through some of the earliest photos taken in China, Japan, and of the excavation of the Suez Canal. Submarine telegraph cables were first brought to China by Danish magnate Carl Fredrick Tietgen (1829-1901), a Dane who in 1870 set up the Great Northern China and Japan Extension Company. The company was created to build and operate a telegraph cable linking Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Japan with each other, and on to Vladivostok on Russia's east coast. From Vladivostok, a cable ran along the Trans-Siberian Railway, linking Hong Kong to telegraph networks in Britain, Europe, and America. Tietgen fought off strong, primarily English, competition and eventually won the concession to lay and operate new telegraph cables connecting Russia, China and Japan. It was a grand and risky project Tietgen and his partners were embarking on. Undersea cables would need to be laid in waters that had not been sounded, and cables were to be brought ashore on coasts where the prevailing conditions were not known and it was uncertain whether the respective governments would grant permission. Everything – cables, stations, wire, and apparatus – was to be brought from Europe and had to function as a coherent system. Two chartered English steamships ‘Cella’ and ‘Great Northern’ were to transport and lay the cables, and the propeller-driven Danish frigate ‘Tordenskjold’ was to sound the waters near Nagasaki and Vladivostok and also carry a relative small amount of cables and keep uninvited guests - which the South China Sea had plenty of – away. “As a small nation with negligible military resources, Denmark could provide a useful – politically neutral – centre for telegraph links to major European powers such as Britain, Russia and the emerging new power of Prussia. The Danes were able to utilize the technical know-how which had been accumulated with great difficulty, and occasionally heavy economic losses, in the preceding decades by British and American entrepreneurs. The competition between the Danish and British groups of telegraph entrepreneurs for first access to the Chinese market was preliminarily resolved when the directors of the two companies negotiated a secret agreement in May 1870. The Danish group had acquired an advantage in terms of timing by winning the Russian concession in 1869, and had to cover shorter distances by sea cables from Vladivostok to Nagasaki and Shanghai. But the British group had the advantage of better access to capital and a more extensive technical experience with submarine cable manufacture and operation. The essence of the agreement was that the line between Hong Kong and Shanghai should be established and operated by the Great Northern the companies would share the income for telegrams which passed this section of the line and they would run offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai jointly. The agreement provided the Danes with assured landing rights in Hong Kong and with British diplomatic support for attempts to secure landing rights in China. Permission to bring submarine telegraph cables into Chinese treaty ports was obtained in 1870 from the Chinese Government (i.e., the office of foreign affairs, known as the Zongli Yamen) by the British Minister in Peking, Thomas Wade. At the same time, the Danish government had dispatched a diplomatic envoy, Chamberlain Julius Sick, at the Great Northern’s expense to China and Japan to obtain the necessary concessions. The cable between Hong Kong and Shanghai was laid in 1870–1871 with the assistance of the frigate Tordenskjold, which the Danish government had generously allocated to the task. The Great Northern had a great deal of technical problems with the cables they had bought from the British manufacturer since the quality of the insulation was not as good as expected. Therefore, the official opening of the line between Shanghai and Hong Kong was delayed until April 1871. During the remainder of that year the company struggled to finish cable sections from Shanghai to Nagasaki, and from Nagasaki to Vladivostok. Communication between Shanghai and Europe via these cables and the Russian Siberian lines was officially inaugurated on 1 January 1872.” (Erik Baark: Wires, Codes and People The Great Northern Telegraph Company in China 1870–90) The album covers and illustrates one on the most fascinating periods in the process of internationalization in the late modern period: The Suez Canal had just opened and ‘Tordenskjold’ was the first Danish ship to sail through it. The submarine cables linked the major hubs in East Asia to the Western world and helped facilitate an unprecedented growth in the region. Overall, the laying of the submarine cable in 1870-71 was a transformative event for East Asia in general. It played a critical role in the area's economic and social development, helping to make it the global commercial center it is today. ‎

‎On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion. Received June 15, - Read June 16, 1853.‎

‎(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 - Part III. Pp. 357-365. Textillustrations. Clean and fine.‎

‎First appearance of this highly importent paper in the development of thermodynamics, describing the experiments leading to the discovery of the cooling effect when a gas is allowed to expand freely. This is the founding theory, later used in refrigeration.""The only substantial contribution to thermodynamics to which the joint names of Joule and Thomson are attached belongs to an idea conceived by Thomson, who saw the possibility of analyzing the deviations of gas properties from the ideal behavior. In particular a non-ideal gas, made to expand slowly through a porous plug so as to approximate a specified mathematical condition - constant enthalpy), would in general undergo cooling (essentially a transformation of atomic motion into work spent against the interatomic attractions)....But the appliocation of the Joule-Thomson effect to technology of refrigeration belongs to a later stage in the development of thermodynamics.""(DSB VII, p. 182).The Joule-Thomson effect or Joule-Kelvin effect describes the increase or decrease in the temperature of a real gas (as differentiated from an ideal gas) or a liquid when allowed to expand freely through a valve or other throttling device while kept insulated so that no heat is transferred to or from the fluid, and no external mechanical work is extracted from the fluid. The Joule-Thomson effect is an isenthalpic process, meaning that the enthalpy of the fluid is constant (i.e., does not change) during the process. It is named for James Prescott Joule and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin who established the effect in 1852, following earlier work by Joule on Joule expansion in which a gas expands at constant internal energy. The Joule-Thomson effect is sometimes referred to as the Joule-Kelvin effect. Engineers often refer to it as simply the J-T effect. ‎

‎On the Mathematical Theory of Electricity in Equilibrium, On the Elementary Laws of Statical Electricity. - [ANTICIPATION OF THE QUADRANT ELECTROMETER THE PORTABLE ELECTROMETER, AND THE ABSOLUTE ELECTROMETER]‎

‎Cambridge, Macmillan and Co., 1846. 8vo. Bound with the original front wrapper in contemporary half calf with black and red title labels to spine with gilt lettering. In ""The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal"", Vol. I [1], (Being Vol. V [5], of the Cambridge Mathematical Journal), 1846. Bookplate pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper and library code written in hand to lower part of spine. Library cards in the back. A fine and clean copy. Pp. 75-96. [Entire volume: IV, 288, VIII pp.].‎

‎First English translation (and first translation in general) with 'considerable additions' (as stated on p. 75) of Thomson's highly influential paper in which he for the very first time occupies himself with - and anticipates the invention of - the quadrant electrometer, the portable electrometer, and the absolute electrometer. ""When resident in Paris he published in Lionville's Journal a paper [first publication of the present], in which he examined the experiments and deductions of Sir. W. Snow-Harris. This investigator had made an experimental examination of the fundamental laws of Coulomb. Thomson showed by pointing out the defects of Harris' electrometer that the results, instead of disproving these laws, actually confirmed them, so far as they went, from this examination dates Thomson's interest in electrometers, which led to the invention of the quadrant electrometer, the portable electrometer, and the absolute electrometer. "" (Lectures on Ten British Physicists of the Nineteenth Century, P. 57).""Thomson's extensive contact with Liouville led him to think more deeply about electrical theory. Liouville had heard of Faraday's work in electrostatics, or at least of the aspects in which Faraday claimed to have found that electrical induction occurs in ""curved lines."" The conception seemed to conflict with the action-at-a-distance approach, and Liouville asked Thomson to write a paper clarifying the differences between Faraday on the one hand and Coulomb and Poisson on the other. This request prompted Thomson to bring together ideas he had been turning over in his mind during the previous three years.From Thomson's new point of view, both the French approach to electrical theory and that of Faraday should consist only of sets of mathematical propositions about the ""distribution of electricity"" on conducting bodies. Of Coulomb, who had never written like Poisson of the ""thickness"" of the electrical layer, Thomson said that he had ""expressed his theory in such a manner that it can only be attacked in the way of proving his experimental results to be inaccurate."" He did not, therefore, believe that Coulomb's approach would stand or fall with the fate of the electrical fluid.Of course, it may be wondered how Thomson could have employed the phrase ""distribution of electricity"" without believing that some hypothetical entity is implicated. He did not think so, however. Instead, by 1845 he was drawing a distinction between a ""physical hypothesis"" and an elementary mathematical law."" By a physical hypothesis he meant an assumption concerning the physical existence of an unobservable entity like the electrical fluid or Faraday's contiguous dielectric particles. By an elementary mathematical law he meant a statement that can be directly applied in experiments because its referents are phenomenal entities and mathematical propositions about them. For example, when it is a question of the ""distribution of electricity"" a phrase that might appear in an ""elementary mathematical law,"" the actual subject concerns the effects produced when a proof-plane is applied to a point of an electrified conductor. The measure of those effects is the twist given to the torsion-bearing thread of an electrometer. Coulomb's laws, therefore, and also those aspects of Poisson's mathematical development of them that do not depend upon the conception of electricity as a physical fluid, were thus actually concise, mathematical laws applicable to the results of such experiments. They were not hypotheses concerning the nature of electricity."" (DSB)‎

‎DIX ANS DE VOYAGES DANS LA CHINE ET L’INDO-CHINE, traduit de l’anglais avec l’autorisation de l’auteur par MM. A. Talandier et H. Vattemare, et illustré de 128 gravures sur bois.‎

‎Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris, 1877Un volume fort in-8°, demi-reliure cuir rouge, dos lisse avec 5 faux caissons dorés (titre et auteur dans lun d’eux en lettres dorées). L’ouvrage fait 492 pages dont un Appendice linguistique en fin et une table des matières (14 chapitres). Le texte, comme le dit le titre, est illustré de nombreuses gravures sur bois dont les sujets et les cadrages sont pour la plupart d’un grand intérêt. La gravure sur bois était encor le seul moyen utilisé à cette époque pour reproduire des images en quantité (on ne maitrisait pas encore l’impression des photos dans les livres et les journaux). Ce qu’il faut savoir, c’est que ce J.THOMSON, écossais (1837-1921), avant d’écrire ce livre, était déjà un reporter photographe connu (nombreuses photographies sur la vie quotidienne des Ecossais de tous milieux). Membre de la Royal scottish Society of arts, il quitte l’Angleterre en 1862 pour rejoindre son frère à SINGAPOUR. Après des clichés en INDE et à ANGKOR qui le rendent célèbre il s’installe à HONG-KONG en 1868 où il fonde son entreprise photographique et où il se livre, entre autres activités, à l’exploration de nombreuses régions chinoises, malgré les difficultés et les risques de telles explorations à cette époque (mais, comme il le dit dans son livre, il se sentait sous la protection des Traités obtenus à la fin de la guerre de l’opium entre l’ANGLETERRE et la CHINE - Traité de PÉKIN en 1960).Et malgré l’hostilité de nombre de CHINOIS devant ce “barbare d’étranger” il accumula un grand nombre de photographies de haute valeur artistique et ethnographique. En 1875, THOMSON fit enfin paraître l’ouvrage qui nous intéresse: “TEN YEARS TRAVELS etc, dont l’éditeur HACHETTE fit une édition française en 1877 sous le titre DIX ANS DE VOYAGES DANS LA CHINE ET L’INDO-CHINE.C’est l’ouvrage que nous proposons ici. On y trouve évidemment les illustrations réalisées pour l’édition anglaise de TEN YEARS AFTER (c’est à dire des gravures dessinées d’après les photos de THOMSON). Et l’on trouve y aussi son texte d’accompagnement.Or, tout comme le sont ses photos, ce texte est du plus grand intérêt . Impossible d’en dire plus ici mais ce qui frappe dans les commentaires de ce photographe c’est à la fois un immense intérêt pour le monde asiatique et ses aspects inimaginables, quelquefois barbares, dit-il . En lisant son texte on ressent bien souvent une certaine suffisance de sa part pour ce peuple que l’ANGLETERRE a vaincu. Mais on sent aussi, dans ses gravurescomme dans son texte, une réelle sensibilité devant certains aspects de la réalité souvent pitoyable qu’il est amené à observer tout au long de ses voyages. Il termine son ouvrage par les mots suivants: “Pour conclure j’espère; grâce à de longs voyages et à une étude attentive, avoir convenablement exposé la condition actuelle des habitants du vaste empire chinois. La peinture est triste et le rayon de soleil qui l’éclaire ça et là ne fait que rendre plus sombres et plus palpables les ténèbres répandues sur tout le pays. Certes nous avons chez nous, en Angleterre, de la misère et de l’ignorance, mais pas de misère si atroce, pas d’ignorance si profonde que celle que l’on rencontre chez tant de millions de Chinois” Notre exemplaire présente un ex-dono sur sa première page de garde et quelques rares soulignages et rousseurs mais il est globalement en ETAT TRES SATISFAISANT.AT‎

‎Un volume fort in-8°, demi-reliure cuir rouge, dos lisse avec 5 faux caissons dorés (titre et auteur dans lun d’eux en lettres dorées). L’ouvrage fait 492 pages dont un Appendice linguistique en fin et une table des matières (14 chapitres). Le texte, comme le dit le titre, est illustré de nombreuses gravures sur bois dont les sujets et les cadrages sont pour la plupart d’un grand intérêt. La gravure sur bois était encore le seul moyen utilisé à cette époque pour reproduire des images en quantité (on ne maîtrisait pas encore l’impression des photos dans les livres et les journaux). Ce qu’il faut savoir, c’est que ce J. THOMSON, écossais (1837-1921), avant d’écrire ce livre, était déjà un reporter photographe connu (nombreuses photographies sur la vie quotidienne des Ecossais de tous milieux). Membre de la Royal scottish Society of Arts, il quitte l’Angleterre en 1862 pour rejoindre son frère à SINGAPOUR. Après des clichés en INDE et à ANGKOR qui le rendent célèbre il s’installe à HONG-KONG en 1868 où il fonde son entreprise photographique et où il se livre, entre autres activités, à l’exploration de nombreuses régions chinoises, malgré les difficultés et les risques de telles explorations à cette époque (mais, comme il le dit dans son livre, il se sentait sous la protection des Traités obtenus à la fin de la guerre de l’opium entre l’ANGLETERRE et la CHINE - Traité de PÉKIN en 1960).Et malgré l’hostilité de nombre de CHINOIS devant ce “barbare d’étranger” il accumula un grand nombre de photographies de haute valeur artistique et ethnographique. En 1875, THOMSON fit enfin paraître l’ouvrage qui nous intéresse: “TEN YEARS TRAVELS etc, dont l’éditeur HACHETTE fit une édition française en 1877 sous le titre DIX ANS DE VOYAGES DANS LA CHINE ET L’INDO-CHINE.C’est l’ouvrage que nous proposons ici. On y trouve évidemment les illustrations réalisées pour l’édition anglaise de TEN YEARS AFTER (c’est à dire des gravures dessinées d’après les photos de THOMSON). Et l’on y trouve aussi son texte d’accompagnement lequel , de même que ses gravures d’après photo sont du plus grand intérêt . Car ce qui frappe dans les commentaires de ce photographe c’est à la fois un immense intérêt pour le monde asiatique et certains de ses aspects qu’il dit inimaginables et quelquefois même barbares...En lisant son texte on ressent souvent une certaine suffisance de sa part pour ce peuple que l’ANGLETERRE a vaincu. Mais on sent aussi, dans ses gravures comme dans son texte, une réelle sensibilité devant certains aspects de la réalité souvent pitoyable qu’il est amené à observer tout au long de ses voyages. Il termine son ouvrage par les mots suivants: “Pour conclure j’espère; grâce à de longs voyages et à une étude attentive, avoir convenablement exposé la condition actuelle des habitants du vaste empire chinois. La peinture est triste et le rayon de soleil qui l’éclaire ça et là ne fait que rendre plus sombres et plus palpables les ténèbres répandues sur tout le pays. Certes nous avons chez nous, en Angleterre, de la misère et de l’ignorance, mais pas de misère si atroce, pas d’ignorance si profonde que celle que l’on rencontre chez tant de millions de Chinois” Notre exemplaire présente un ex-dono sur sa première page de garde et quelques rares soulignages et rousseurs mais il est globalement en BON ETAT [50351].‎

‎On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion. Part I-II (2 Papers).‎

‎London, Richard taylor and William Francis, 1853-54. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 and 1854, Vol. 144. With titlepages to vol. 143 a. 144. The papers: pp. 357-365 a. pp. 321-364, textillustrations. The first titlepage bears the name of P.G. Tait.‎

‎First printing of these importent papers in which the authors found the so-called Joule-Thomson effect which should be the founding technology in refrigeration. They showed that a gas expanding into vacuum without addition of external work undergo a change in temperature, in spite of the theoretical speculations. The temperature change occurs due to the internal work required to overcome the attractive forces between molecules.""The only substantial contribution to thermodnamics to which the joint names of Joule and Thomson, are attached belongs to an idea conceived by Thomson, who saw the possibility of analyzing the deviations of gas properties from the ideal behavior. In particular, a non-ideal gas, made to expand slowly through a porous plug (so as to approximate a specified mathematical condition—constant enthalpy), would in general undergo a cooling (essentially a transformation of atomic motion into work spent against the interatomic attractions). For the delicate test of this effect Thomson required Joule’s unsurpassed skill (1852). But the application of the Joule- Thomson effect to the technology of refrigeration belongs to a later stage in the development of thermodynamics.""(DSB).Peter Guthrie Tait (1831 - 1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the seminal energy physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. His name is known in graph theory mainly for Tait's conjecture. (His name on the first titlepage).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"" 1852 C.‎

‎Les Revenants: Ils étaient partis faire le jihad ils sont de retour en France‎

‎SEUIL 2016 8x3x22cm. 2016. Broché. 304 pages. Bon Etat intérieur propre‎

‎MONET - CATALOGUE DE L'EXPOSITION - GALERIES NATIONALES GRAND PALAIS‎

‎RMN 2010 25 8x4 4x30 2cm. 2010. Relié jaquette. 384 pages. Très bon état‎

‎Sauvez vos cheveux / comment obtenir une belle chevelure‎

‎Ed de la nouvelle hygiene 1963 in12. 1963. broché. 73 pages. Bon Etat intérieur propre‎

‎2 aout 1914 ... et ce fut la grande guerre‎

‎Laffont / ce jour la 1964 in8. 1964. broché. 276 pages. Bon Etat intérieur propre‎

‎2 aout 1914 ...et ce fut la grande guerre‎

‎Laffont / ce jour la 1964 in8. 1964. broché. 276 pages. Bon état‎

‎Les methodes naturelles de guerison‎

‎Ed de la nouvelle hygiène 1959 plaquette in12. 1959. agrafé. 32 pages. Bon Etat intérieur propre‎

‎Jamais d'autre que toi‎

‎Actes Sud Editions 2019 14x24x3cm. 2019. Broché. 320 pages. Très bon état‎

‎Et ce fut la Grande Guerre ( 2 aout 1914 )‎

‎Laffont 1964 16x24. 1964. Broché. 276 pages. Bon Etat intérieur propre couverture légèrement frottée sur ses bords‎

‎Claude Monet 1840-1926 - relié sous coffret cartonné‎

‎RMN 2010 26x30x4cm. 2010. relié sous coffret cartonné. 385 pages. Bon Etat intérieur propre‎

‎DEMOCRACY IN FRANCE SINCE 1870‎

‎Oxford University Press 1969 13x20x2cm. 1969. Broché. 344 pages. Etat Correct couverture usagée‎

‎Le poids des sons‎

‎Cymbalum pataphysicum/ cliques et claques 1986 plaquette in8. 1986. agrafé. 10 pages. Bon Etat couverture legerement insolée exemplaire numeroté‎

‎Poetical works‎

‎Oxford university 1965 in8. 1965. Cartonné jaquette. 516 pages. Bon Etat‎

‎Claire et ses ombres‎

‎Champs elysées - le masque / Du masque 1995 poche. 1995. broche souple. Bon Etat‎

‎Claire et ses ombres‎

‎Champs elysées - le masque / Du masque 1995 poche. 1995. Broché. 189 pages. Bon Etat‎

‎La Mariette est de sortie‎

‎Librairie des Champs-Élysées 1984 poche. 1984. Broché. 185 pages. Bon Etat‎

‎Le crime de Hollowfield‎

‎Editions du Masque 1988 16x10x1cm. 1988. Poche. Bon Etat‎

‎Le ciel infranchissable‎

‎Gautier-languereau 1953 in8. 1953. Broché. 125 pages. Bon Etat‎

‎L'hérédité‎

‎Payot 1930 in8. 1930. Broché. 567 pages. envoi suivi pour la France et l'étranger Bon Etat‎

‎Electricité et matière , traduit de l'anglais par Maurice Solovine, préface de Paul Langevin (Conférences données à Yale en 1903-1904)‎

‎Gauthier-Villars et Cie, à Paris , Science et Civilisation, Exposés Scientifiques du Savoir Humain Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1922 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur crème In-8 1 vol. - 142 pages‎

‎19 figures dans le texte en noir, et 1 planche hors-txte en frontispice, portrait de Sir J.-J. Thomson 1ere traduction en français, 1922 "Contents, Chapitres : Préface de Paul Langevin (4 pages), avant-propos de J.-J. Thomson, ix, Texte, 133 pages - Représentation du champ électrique par des lignes de force - Masse électrique et masse liée - Effets produits par l'accélération des tubes de Faraday - La structure atomique de l'électricité - La constitution de l'atome - La radioactivité et les substances radioactives - Joseph John Thomson, né le 18 décembre 1856 et mort le 30 août 1940, est un physicien britannique. Il a découvert l'électron ainsi que les isotopes et a inventé la spectrométrie de masse ; il a analysé la propagation d'ondes guidées. Il a reçu le prix Nobel de physique de 1906 pour « ses recherches théoriques et expérimentales sur la conductivité électrique dans les gaz ». Ces recherches ont fourni les preuves de l'existence de l'électron. - NB : Il s'agit de conférences données à l'Université de Yale en mai 1903 - (A series of four lectures, given by Thomson on a visit to Princeton University in 1896, were subsequently published as Discharge of electricity through gases (1897). Thomson also presented a series of six lectures at Yale University in 1904 - cf : Wikipedia)." couverture propre et en très bon état, avec quelques rousseurs discrètes, intérieur sinon frais et propre, papier à peine jauni, cela reste un bel exemplaire, bien complet du portrait de Thomson en frontispice‎