A Chapter on Street Nuisances. Extracted from “Passages from the life of a philosopher.”
EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS; PRECEDING THE APPEARANCE IN “PASSAGES FROM THE LIFE OF A PHILOSOPHER”. More
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Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
THE FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION BY BABBAGE OF HIS ANALYTICAL ENGINE, THE FIRST GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER. AN EXTRAORDINARY COPY: FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY BABBAGE TO EMPRESS EUGENIE AND IN A MAGNIFICENT ROYAL PRESENTATION BINDING. More
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A Powerful Röntgen Ray Tube with a Pure Electron Discharge
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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Experimental Researches in Electricity
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF MICHAEL FARADAY'S MOST FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL PAPER, REPORTING THE FIRST PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICITY BY ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION. More
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On the Mechanical Performance of Logical Inference [The Logical Piano]
A LANDMARK IN COMPUTER SCIENCE: FIRST EDITION OF JEVONS’S PRESENTATION AND EXPLANATION OF HIS “LOGICAL PIANO”, THE FIRST MACHINE TO SOLVE A MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM AT SUPERHUMAN SPEED. More
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Relations entre les phénomènes électriques et capillaires [Lippmann's Thesis]
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]
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...](/pictures/thumb/495.jpg?v=1478816338)
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]
First complete edition of Rontgen’s announcement of the discovery of the X-Ray. More
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Experimenta circa Effectum, etc. Expériences sur l’effet du conflict électrique sur l’aiguille animantée
ONE OF THE FIRST TRANSLATIONS OF ØRSTED’S FAMOUS AND UNOBTAINABLE LATIN PAMPHLET ON THE DISCOVERY OF ELECTROMAGNETISM, PUBLISHED IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH IN FRANCE, AND IMPORTANT FOR ITS CONNECTION TO AMPÈRE’S EXTENSIONS OF ØRSTED’S RESEARCH ON ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENA. A MAGNIFICENT COPY IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS..... More
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A Mathematical Theory of Communication; Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems
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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The Problem of Increasing Human Energy with Special Reference to the Harnessing of the Sun's Energy
FIRST EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING OF TESLA'S LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND PHILOSOPHICAL MASTERPIECE; HIS MOST DETAILED PRESENTATION OF HIS WORLDVIEW. More
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