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1926Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Great photo of cable-pulling gang; The progress of the phone in greater Vancouver; New record set by Vancouver installers; Cartridge fuses defend against foreign currents; Providing phone facilities is a co-operative task; New Kerrisdale exchange being equipped; How a switchboard lamp is made; William Buckle and Splicing; Construction/splicing in Vancouver; A Switchboard Plug and Cord Explains its troubles; Where the cables end when they crawl out of the sea; Chilliwack's first telephone agent, John McCutcheon, passes away; Nice photo of Granville and Hastings; Nice photo of Richmond Road and area near Victoria; Operator training - 8 pages with nice photos; Peter Grant helped equip Canada's first common battery office; Nanaimo and New West. offices to be expanded; Preparing the pay cheques; George P. Kelly - installed 80' poles; More trunks in Vancouver; Lightning damage on mainland; Repeaters aid voice currents on long journeys; automatic typewriters - chief repeaterman William Faulkes; New Kerrisdale office; Bar Graph of growth of the B.C. system; Statement of Development: # of phones in operation in towns across the province; Victoria and Vancouver to be united by new route; how the phone bill was paid 20 years ago; Kootenays get service; The service application; High tension hazards; draughting the system; Mr. C.E.S. Fisher; Operator Grant gets a phone in her home; Arithmetic is paramount in traffic man's life; Phone shattered by lightning strike; Kamloops now connected to coast; Despatching yellow cabs from 'seymour 4000'; New Carlton office; plant garage serves many cars; new Langley office; Long Kamloops feature with many photos; Grouse Mountain yields to phone's advance - long article with many photos; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of backstrip which shows significant wear and is loose along back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge of text else unmarked. Binding intact. Book
1851ref. 49596Paris, Bachelier, 1851. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 33, No 13. With htitle and titlepage to tome 33. Pp. (329-) 360 (entire issue offered). Fizeau's paper: pp. 349-355. A stamp on upper right corner of title-page and a perforated stamp in lower margin of title-page. Clean and fine.
1851ref. 49596Paris Bachelier 1851. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 33 No 13. With htitle and titlepage to tome 33. Pp. 329- 360 entire issue offered. Fizeau's paper: pp. 349-355. A stamp on upper right corner of title-page and a perforated stamp in lower margin of title-page. Clean and fine. First appearance of this paper the first announcment of Fizeau's results of his experiments with the velocity of light."It the paper is less famous for some reason than the failure of Michelson and Morley to detect the aether drag but NO LESS SIGNIFICANT. For it showed that the velocity of light increases in a medium according to the formula v 1 - 1/n2 where v is the velocity of the medium and n is the refractive index"Gillespie in "The Edge of Objecticity" p. 427. Fizeau shows that the velocity of light is higher in water flowing in the direction of the beam than that of light propagating in the direction opposite the direction of flow. The paper offered is the shorter announcement of the research the paper in full was published later in 1859 in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique". Albert Einstein later pointed out the IMPORTENCE OF THE EXPERIMENT FOR SPECIAL RELATIVITY.Fizeau's result was replicated by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley in 1886 repeated the experiment on a larger scale and confirmed Fizeau's results. and in 1914 it was confirmed by Pieter Zeeman. It was Arago in 1838 who suggested this "crucial experiment" to decide between the corpuscular and undulatory theories of light by comparing the speed of light in water and in air. It vindicated the undulatory position.It was shown by Hendrik Lorentz 1892 1895 that the experiment can be explained by the reaction of the moving water upon the interfering waves without the need of any aether entrainment. On this occasion Lorentz introduced a different time coordinate for moving bodies within the aether the so called Local time an early form of the Lorentz transformation for small velocities compared to the speed of light. In 1895 Lorentz went a step further and explained the coefficient by local time alone and without mentioning any interaction of light and matter. unknown
1862ref. 49458Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1862. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences"", Vol. 55, No 12 a. 21. Pp. 481--519 a. pp. 781-803. (Entire issues offered). With title-page to vol. 55. Foucault's papers: pp. 501-503 a. pp. 792-796. Clean and fine.
1862ref. 49458Paris Mallet-Bachelier 1862. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences" Vol. 55 No 12 a. 21. Pp. 481--519 a. pp. 781-803. Entire issues offered. With title-page to vol. 55. Foucault's papers: pp. 501-503 a. pp. 792-796. Clean and fine. First printing of Foucault's famous experiments on the velocity of light with the description of his improved equipment the rotating mirror. Foucault's method was later developed by Michelson and Morley in their famous experiment in 1887."Foucault’s first experiment carried out in 1850 and written up in full in his doctoral thesis of 1853 was purely comparative; he announced no numerical values until 1862. Then with an improved apparatus he was able to measure precisely the velocity of light in air. This result significantly smaller than Fizeau’s of 1849 changed the accepted value of solar parallax and vindicated the higher value which Le Verrier had calculated from astronomical data. Foucault’s turning-mirror apparatus was the basis for the later determinations of the velocity of light by A. A. Michelson and Simon Newcomb."DSB.Leon Foucault used a similar method to Fizeau. He shone a light to a rotating mirror then it bounced back to a remote fixed mirror and then back to the first rotating mirror. But because the first mirror was rotating the light from the rotating mirror finally bounced back at an angle slightly different from the angle it initially hit the mirror with. By measuring this angle it was possible to measure the speed of the light. Foucault continually increased the accuracy of this method over the years. His final measurement in 1862 determined that light traveled at 299796 Km/s. Magee "A Source Book in Physics" p. 342 ff. and "Source Book in Astronomy" p. 282 ff. unknown
1973Neatly signed, without inscription, upon half-title page by Robert Stanfield. viii, 279 pages. Index. "Revealed for the first time the man and the politician, what he was and what made him that way. Based on extensive original research, including lengthy interviews with Stanfield, his friends, his allies, and his enemies, this is the only comprehensive portrait of this fascinating and paradoxical national figure once described as the most liberal, humane, and civilized mind on our political landscape. Stanfield was the rarest of breeds; an honourable politician." - dust jacket. Book unmarked with light wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. SPADONI & DONNELLY 2494. Book
194068 pages. Features: Colour cover illustration of golfer staring out window at rain; Colour Marboleum floors and Muroleum walls ad inside front cover; Vintage Frigidaire fridge one-page ad; News digest includes 'Munich-Mindedness', 'No Compromise', 'Re-distribution of the Earth', 'The Heroism of Finland'; Fantastic one-page colour photo Fisher Body ad provides two photos of the Dionne Quintuplets, all wearing light blue coats and with ribbons in their hair; Paying for the War; Mysteries of Tibet's Dalai Lama, the 'King Who Never Dies' - fantastic photo-illustrated article with photo of 'Little Tanchu', the Dalai Lama, and the Potala in Lhasa; Nice Little Dog (hunting short story); Spring Freshet Baby; Nothing Ever Happens; Managing Director of the Navy, Sir Dudley Pound, First Sea Lord - article with photo; Spies in Holland - Fascinating article explains how Nazi agents have been specially commissioned by the Hitler since 1933 to probe the secrets of Holland's plans for defence in the event of invastion; Loafers' Loops (short story); Bang and Go Back! - harness-racing article; Vintage half-page orange and black Alka-Seltzer ad features endorsement of the Toronto Maple Leafs and photo of them playing the New York Rangers, including Syl Apps and Gordie Drillon; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad presents the Banff Springs Hotel; *Gorgeous* 1949 Chevrolet colour centrefold ad features a maroon Special De Luxe Sport Sedan plus illustrations of a green Cabriolet, a brown four-passenger coupe, a brown Master 85 Business Coupe, and a green Town Sedan; Interested photo-illustrated Movie News; Nice photo and brief write-up of Muriel Angelus; 1/4-page illustrated ad for Canadian National's Continental Limited; Photo of world champion pacer "Billy Direct", with his celebrated trainer, Vic Fleming; No Happy Medium, Please - fashion article; Pull Up a Chair - interior design article with two funky colour photos; The Eyes Have It - beauty article; Pond's cold cream ad features photos of Lady Brigid King-Tenison and Katherryn Hernan; Another Pond's ad features photos of Miss Ridgeley Vermilye; Vintage fashion illustrations; Menus to Fit Every Budget; World Sayings; Great Heinz Spaghetti ad on back cover shows happy blonde holding steaming dish; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. A sound copy of this fascinating wartime issue. Book
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1900128 pages including thirty-two magnificent pages of vintage Toronto ads at back. Black and white photographic plates. List of Officers. Roll of Honour. Music and words to the regimental march "Highland Laddie". Presents the origin and history of this regiment, and a short account of the Highland regiments from time to time stationed in Canada. Printed upon coated paper. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding taped at front hinge and title page. A worthy reference copy of this important Canadian military history. Dornbusch 62, Cooke [3] p.132. Book
1922ref. 23466REILLY & LEE Chicago 1922. HARDBACK NODustJacket 1922 1st Edition VG/GOOD NOJACKET This is an imperfect copy at best with much tracking white spots and rubbing on covers. Sold AS-IS which is a First Edition of a very scarce period piece of that time. SmAll Stains & Scuff Marks Along Cover Edges & Back Blue Decorated Cloth with Black Lines Cover with Black Lettering Interior Nice tight Clean few pg edge Tears Light FoX Wear 224 pgs. First Edition. Hard Cover. REILLY & LEE , Chicago hardcover
1953ref. 27275Reading PA Fantasy Press 1953 HBDJ 1953 stated 1st edition Original Red Cloth lettered & Decorated on Spine in Gold Gilt Cover light Rub Wear Interior nice tight Clean light Wear FoX F-/NF DJ slight rub wear & tiny Chips & small mended tears Extremities 256 pages Light soil Back DJ Tiny Tear Base DJ Spine Author born in Butler Missouri in 1907 . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Reading, PA Fantasy Press hardcover
ref. mon0000013698Palgrave Macmillan. hardcover. Good. 1.2000 in x 8.5000 in x 5.4000 in. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-library with usual markings. Foxing to edges of text-block. Text clean and binding solid. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover
1953ref. 22013Reading PA Fantasy Press 1953. HBDJ 1953 stated 1st edition Original Red Cloth lettered & Decorated on Spine in Gold Gilt Cover light Rub Wear Interior nice tight Clean light Wear FoX F-/NF DJ slight rub wear & tiny Chips & small mended tears Extremities 256 pages Light soil Back DJ Tiny Tear Base DJ Spine. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Reading, PA Fantasy Press hardcover
1867ref. 55371(København, 1867). Contemp. marbled clothbacked boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. Pp. 26-45. Extracted from ""Oversigt over det Kgl. danskeVidenskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger 1867, Nr. 1"".
1867ref. 55371København 1867. Contemp. marbled clothbacked boards. Titlelabel with gilt lettering on upper cover. Pp. 26-45. Extracted from "Oversigt over det Kgl. danskeVidenskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger 1867 Nr. 1". Extremely scarce first edition of the paper in which Lorenz independent of Maxwell stated that light is electromechanical in nature probably inspired by his former teacher H. C. Oersted the discoverer of electromagnetism and professor at the Polytechnic College he aimed at unifying the forces of nature without introducing new physical hypotheses. "The idea that the various forces in nature are merely different manifestations of the one and same force has proved itself more fertile than all physical theories".Most impressive of all Lorenz’ achievements in optics is his electromagnetic theory of light developed in a relatively unknown paper of 1867 two years after Maxwell’s famous paper on the same subject. At that time Lorenz did not know Maxwell’s theory and his own approach was quite different. Lorenz’ electromagnetic theory of light can be described briefly as an interpretation of the light vector as the current density vector in a medium obeying Ohm’s law. This paper contains the fundamental equations for the vector potential and the scalar potential or - for the first time - the corresponding retarded potentials expressed in terms of the current density vector and the electrical charge density. The concept of retarded potentials had already been introduced in an earlier paper by Lorenz in connection with research on the theory of elasticity. He found that the differential equation for the current density vector was the same as his fundamental wave equation for the light vector completed with a term which explains the absorption of light in conducting media and that his theory led to the correct value for the velocity of light." Mogens Pihl in DSB.The paper was published in English 1867 "On the identity of the vibrations of light with electrical currents." Philosophical Magazine 34: 287-301 and also in German in "Annalen der Physik" hardcover
1891ref. 574Nims & Knight Troy NY 1891. HB NODJ 1891 1st edition THUS Interior nice tight Clean light wear Fox & few small tear chips edges pages Brown Tan Green decorated Cloth Gold Gilt cover lightning TO cover EDGES & light wear rub light Fox O/W very nice Some pages with light stain at inner hinge NF/NF AS-IS NODJ121 pages Back Cover small staining copyright page says Copyright 1888 By Samuel E. Cassino. First Thus. Hard Cover. Nims & Knight Troy, NY hardcover
1830ref. 013641London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1830 Book. Illus. by Foldout Map and Three Illustrations. Good Minus. 3/4 Leather. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Original 3/4 leather over maroon cloth on boards. Marbled page edges. Five raised bands on spine with gilt and embossed decoration. Minor wear to edges and corners of leather. Top of spine a little frayed. Previous owner's bookplates in front. Front hinge broken but still holding. Medium hinge break between pgs. 120-121. Bad hinge break between pgs. 288-289. Rear hinge cracked. Foldout lithographed map of Nova Scotia counties is in very good condition - just a few extra folds at one edge. Captain Moorsom spent five years in Nova Scotia initially as an officer in the 52nd Regiment. This book is his observances of the people climate geography and economic prospects of the colony written in the form of letters home to friends in England. One biographer calls it "the most complete picture available of Nova Scotia during the 1820s." Some Nova Scotians were upset at some of his comments but Joseph Howe defended Moorsom since he'd promoted the colony in England. This book is on consignment so no discounts apply. It will be sent insured so expect a request for "extra shipping" to cover that cost. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley hardcover
ref. 2082702114602979Ship and Port Editorial Office Showa 55-Heisei 16 N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Ship and Port Editorial Office Showa 55-Heisei 16 paperback
1922ref. 23644Reilly & Lee Chicago 1922. HARDBACK NODustJacket 1922 1st Edition 1st Printing VG/VG NOJACKET . Sold AS-IS which is a First Edition of a very scarce period piece of that time. Blue Decorated Cloth with Black Lines Cover with Black Lettering light Rub Wear Interior Nice tight Clean Light FoX Wear 224 pgs Light Fade & Sun & mild FoX SPINE COVER. First Edition. Hard Cover. Reilly & Lee , Chicago hardcover
1920362 pages. Fold-out map inside back board indicates operations of the Battalion. Twenty-one black and white photographic plates (including one at page 56 not included in List of Illustrations). Lists of: Service Dates; Engagements of the Battalion; Wastage in France; Casualties; Honours and Awards. Also includes Nominal Roll of Officers, including name, address and record of service, and Nominal Roll Other Ranks, including number, name, address and record of service. "Being a history of the justly famous 85th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Nova Scotia Highlanders) in the various theatres of the war [WWI], together with a Nominal Roll and synopsis of service of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men who served with the Battalion in France." - subtitle. Gilt lettering and decoration upon forest green cloth-covered boards. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this important Canadian military history. [Enser p. 88. Cooke p. 130. Dornbusch 426. Amtmann H523] Book
1823ref. 029204London: Rodwell & Martin 1823. Un volume 18x26 cm frontespizio illustrato 60 tavole incise e 126 pagine non numerate con testo esplicativo delle tavole ognuna in inglese al recto e francese al verso. Il frontespizio un po' sbiadito e rifilato; le altre tavole in perfette condizioni. Incisioni di: Allen Askey Byrne Cooke Junr. Corbould Edwards Finden Goodall Heath Hollis Hobson Lacy Middiman Miller Pye Radclyffe Wallis e Westwood tratte da dipinti di Dewint. Bellissima legatura coeva in tutta pelle rossa con larga cornice dorata ai piatti dorso con fregi e titoli dorati; labbra e tagli dorati. Ex libris nobiliare inglese al retro del piatto. Uno dei più famosi e bei libri illustrati dell'800 sulla Sicilia. Riferimenti: Mira G. Bibliografia siciliana v. I p. 515; The first proofs of the universal catalogue of Books on art v. I p. 415; Pine-Coffin R.S. Bibliography of British and American travel in Italy to 1860 rif. 823.6. Peso: 1500 gr. Rodwell & Martin hardcover
1819ref. 47357Paris, Crochard, 1819. 8vo. No wrappers. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Tome X, 2. Series, Cahier 3. Titlepage to vol. X. Pp. 241-336 (entire issue offered, Cahier 3). Arago and Fresnel's paper: pp. 288-306.
1846ref. 44101Paris, Victor Masson, 1846. No wrappers as extracted from ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", Tome 17, Troisieme Série. Titlepage to tome 17. Pp. 172-199 a. 1 engraved plate + pp. 316-338, textillustr. Brownspots to titlepage and some browspots to the second memoir.
1819ref. 47357Paris Crochard 1819. 8vo. No wrappers. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" Tome X 2. Series Cahier 3. Titlepage to vol. X. Pp. 241-336 entire issue offered Cahier 3. Arago and Fresnel's paper: pp. 288-306. First appearance of this seminal paper in which Arago and Fresnel described the experiments which demonstrated that light vibrates transversely to its direction of forward movement."In a further letter to Arago dated 29 April 1818 Young recurred to the subject of transverse vibrations comparing light to the undulations of a cord agitated by one of its extremities. This letter was shown by Arago to Fresnel who at once saw that it presented the true explanation of the non-interference of beams polarised in perpendicular planes and that the latter effect could even be made the basis of a proof of the correctness of Young's hypothesis; for if the vibration of each beam be supposed resolved into three components one along the ray and the other two at right angles to it it is obvious from the Arago-Fresnel experiment that the components in the direction of the ray must vanish; in other words THAT THE VIBRATIONS WHICH CONSTITUTE LIGHT ARE EXECUTED IN THE WAVE-FRONT." Edmund Whittaker in "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity I" p. 115. - Parkinson Breakthroughs 1819 P. - Magie "A Source Book in Physics p. 325 ff. unknown
