FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS announcing the invention of the Coolidge tube, the basis for all modern X-ray tubes; "the single most important event in the progress of radiology." More
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FIRST EDITION of Jevons's explanation of his "logical piano"; a landmark in computer science. More
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![Relations entre les phénomènes électriques et capillaires [Lippmann's Thesis]. GABRIEL LIPPMANN.](/pictures/thumb/1606.jpg?v=1478817016)
SCARCE FIRST PRINTING IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Lippmann's famous "Thesis", presenting his capillary electrometer, the foundation for the electrocardiogram. More
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![Eine neue Art von Strahlen [About a new kind of rays]. Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen.](/pictures/thumb/1041.jpg?v=1478816512)
FIRST PRINTING, RARE OFFPRINT in original wrappers of Rontgen's announcement of the discovery of the X-ray. More
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![Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen [About a new kind of rays], parts I & II. WITH: Weitere Beobachtungen uber die Eigenschaften der X-Strahlen [Further observations about the properties of X-rays]. Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen.](/pictures/thumb/495.jpg?v=1478816338)
First complete edition of Rontgen’s announcement of the discovery of the X-Ray. More
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FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF BOTH PARTS of Shannon’s extremely influential theory of communication and essential to the development of the computer. WITH: Shannon’s important paper on cryptography. Virtually all electronic forms of communication today are indebted to Shannon’s work. More
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