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Wuorio, Eva-Lis; Porter, M.; Campbell, M.W.; Hutchison, Bruce; Bodsworth, Fred; Hutton, Eric; Ramsay, Lisa; Callaghan, MorleyMareMagnum

Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, November (Nov.) 1, 1952 - Looting Our History on Manitoulin Island

195264 pages. Features: This issue features, for the first time, cover art by James Hill of Hamilton, featuring an actual scene of a snow sleigh being painted in Dundas, Ontario during a light snow; Great colour ad for Allis-Chalmers Rumely, Ltd. inside front cover features their equipment mining uranium ore ungerground; Household Finance ad features photo of Mr. S.B. Kelly, Manager of the Richmond St., London, Ontario office; One-page two-colour ad for Thor household appliances; Nothing Sacred About the Two-Party System (Editorial); Column on B.C.'s Socred government; Nice colour ad for Canadian General Electric features six of their clocks; Canada's best-loved Governor-General, Lord Alexander, becomes Defense Minister of Great Britain - article with many photos; Benny's Happy Family - nearly four hundred veterans and their wives, and fourteen hundred children live at Benny Farm, a huge apartment development in Montreal's suburb of Notre Dame de Grace - article with five photos; Keep Away from Laura - fiction by Morley Callaghan; The Mysterious Kingdom of the Saguenay - photo-illustrated article (including photo of Madame Gunder Olsen sitting outside her home; How Mackenzie King Won His Greatest Gamble - the fantastic events of 1926 showed him as a true political genius; They're Looting Our History - American collectors and tourists armed with shovels are carting away the story of Canada's dim past from Manitoulin Island - article with photos; When Sears Joins Up with Simpson's - great photo-illustrated article on this important Canadian department store merger; Why the Braden's Don't Come Home - Photo-illustrated article on Bernie and Barbara Braden, once of Vancouver, who now have jobs in British TV, radio, stage and movies; Colour Sweet Caps (Caporal) ad features puffing majorette; Colour centrefold ad for Westinghouse home appliances; Prest-O-Lite ad features photo of Boston Bruin Milt Schmidt in action; Interesting illustrated ad for film "Androcles and the Lion" with heading "Barbaric revelry to fire the senses of the world... in the story of history's most sin-swept era!"; Nice colour ad for Aylmer Golden Corn; Nice colour ad for Champion spark plugs features boy throwing snowball; Uncommon Stelco ad features photos of their new 673-foot ore unloading bridge at Hamilton, their new blast furnace at Hamilton Works, and their new Open Hearth Furnace at Hamilton; Nice two-page Buick ad; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. A high-quality copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book

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[NATIONAL ELECTRIC LAMP ASSOCIATION -- PHOTO ALBUM]. [LANE, W George (Ed)].Biblio.com

Camp National. National Electric Lamp Association 1912. Fantastic Edwardian souvenir photo album for the vacation management retreats hosted by the National Electric Lamp Association held at Association Island in Henderson NY filled with 101 original photos.

1912ref. 53705Association Island Henderson Harbor NY: N.E.L.A. General Electric Corporation 1912. Oblong folio. 14.25 x 10.75 in. 40 leaves unnumbered. composed of thick brown paper stock w/ Arts & Crafts motif borders & decorations in mauve. With 101 tipped-in original silver gelatin sepia-tinted photographs ranging in size from 2 in. rounds to 5.5 x 9.95 in. and all are mounted into the albums most with printed text captions. Original brown half-suede over brown softcovers yapp edges stamped gilt N.E.L.A. logo and title on front cover stamped in gilt minor edgewear rubbing still VG exemplar. First edition of this lavishly produced souvenir album filled with original photographs of the antics by participants for the National Electric Lamp Association at their Camp National. Association Island in Henderson Harbor NY was purchased in 1905 from private owners and renamed. This lavishly appointed island contained a town hall dining hall with full staff of waitresses and housekeepers a hospital tent swimming pool areas for tents recreational trap shooting baseball diamonds theatre and marina for sport boating. These photos vividly portray how these mid-summer retreats were filled with conferences but also devoted to the executives reliving the joys of the summer camp retreats of the well-to-do childhoods during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. They created pennants went sport fishing played in tennis tournaments croquet matches poker games baseball games parades costume parties minstrel shows plays parties and more. These Camp National events continued on a more subdued scale after General Electric acquired N.E.L.A. and began using Association Island as a corporate retreat and training center for GE executives customers and employees through the end of the 1950s. The Elfun Society General Electric’s famed think-tank was founded in 1928 on the Island and named in honor of the historic elm tree depicted in the decorative borders. General Electric’s use of Association Island even served as the basis for Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel Player Piano in 1952 a satire of the antics of engineers and managers of a large unnamed corporation on their annual retreat. The National Electric Lamp Association was founded at the end of the 19th century during a great deal of turmoil in the incandescent lamp industry and a number of small lamp manufacturers needed to pool their resources in order to compete with General Electric. Ironically Franklin Terry Burton & Henry Tremaine John & Robert Crouse founded the Company in 1901 with 75% of the needed capital from GE who was to remain a silent partner. A number of the small companies such as Sterling Electric The Economy Electric Co. and many others were able to use the labs set up by N.E.L.A. and within a few years had gained nearly 50% of the total lamp production in the United States. However in 1911 the U.S. Government brought an anti-trust suit against the N.E.L.A. and GE exercised their option to buy the remaining 25% and they officially all became part of General Electric forming the National Quality Lamp Division. See: Association Island’s History 2015; Nela Park: A brief early history -- Terry Management Style and Incandescent Lamp Advances. N.E.L.A., General Electric Corporation, paperback

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DRUMMOND, THOMAS - THE INVENTION OF LIMELIGHT, THE "DRUMMOND LIGHT"Biblio.com

On the means of facilitating the observation of distant stations in geodætical operations. Read May 4 1826.

1826ref. 46535London W.Nicol 1826. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1826 - Part III. Pp. 324-337 and 1 engraved plate. A faint dampstain to top of plate. First appearance of Drummond's paper in which he described his and Goldsworthy Gurney's invention and coined the word 'limelight'. His apparatus demonstrated on the plate was originally used for surveying as the title of the paper shows. Drummond claimed the light to be 83 times brighter than any previous artificial light.The Scottish engineer Thomas Drummond 1797-1840 saw a demonstration of the effect by Michael Faraday and realized that the light would be useful for surveying. Drummond built a working version in 1826 and the device is sometimes called the Drummond Light after him. Limelight was first used in public in the Covent Garden Theatre in London in 1837 and enjoyed widespread use in theatres around the world in the 1860s and 1870s. Limelights were employed to highlight solo performers in the same manner as modern followspots spotlights. Limelight was replaced by electric arc lighting in the late 19th century. Wikipedia."John Hersehel describes the impression produced when the light was first exhibited in the Tower: "The common Argand burner and parabolic reflector of a British lighthouse were first exhibited the room being darkened and with considerable effect. Fresnel’s superb lamp was next disclosed at whose superior effect the other seemed to dwindle and showed in a manner quite subordinate. But when the gas began to play the lime being brought now to its full ignition and the screen suddenly removed a glare shone forth overpowering and as it were annihilating both its predecessors which appeared by its side the one as a feeble gleam which it required attention to see the other like a mere plate of heated metal. A shout of triumph and of admiration burst from all present."’ DNB.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1825 C unknown

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FARADAY, MICHAEL .- THE ORIGIN OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY OF LIGHTBiblio.com

Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Twenty-eight Series. § 36. On the Lines of Magnetic Force; their definite character; and their distribution within a Magnet and through Space. Sections 3070-3176. Recieved October 22 - Read November 27 and .

1852ref. 42292London Richard Taylor and William Francis 1852. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1852 - Part I. Pp. 25-56 textillustr. Clean and fine. First appearance of a historical paper in electromagnetical theory. Faraday in this paper defines his key concept "lines of force" and summarizes in what connections he used it and he shows how it explains the pehenomena of magnetism and electricity. His insistance of the importence of the electromagnetic fields of force was the historical starting point of the electrical side of modern theories of field physics. Maxwell later translated these ideas into mathematical form and developed them into his theory of electromagnetic waves.Especially notable in this paper is: As all space is permeated by lines of force Faraday suggests that light and radiant heat might be tranverse vibrations propagated along these lines of force. In this way he proposed to "dismiss the aether" and to replace it by lines of force between centres the centres together with their lines of force constituting the particles of material substance. If the existance of a luminiferous aether were to be admitted he suggests that it might be the vehicle of magnetic force "for it is not at all unlikely that if there be an aether it should have other uses than simply the conveyance of radiations" section 3075 in this paper offered. This sentece may be regarded as THE ORIGIN OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY OF LIGHT Whittaker in: A History of the theories of the Aether and Electricity I: pp. 194-95.From 1831 to 1852 Michael Faraday published his "Experimental Researches in Electricity" in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. These papers contain not only an impressive series of experimental discoveries but also a collection of heterodox theoretical concepts on the nature of these phenomena expressed in terms of lines of forces and fields. He published 30 papers in all under this general title.They represents Faraday's most importent work are classics in both chemistry and physics and are the experimental foundations for Maxwell's electro-magnetic theory of light using Faraday's concepts of lines of force or tubes of magnetic and electrical forces. His many experiments on the effects of electricity and magnetism presented in these papers lead to the fundamental discoveries of 'induced electricity' the Farday current the electronic state of matter the identity of electricity from different sources equivalents in electro-chemical decomposition electrostatic induction hydro-electricity diamagnetism relation of gravity to electricity atmospheric magnetism and many other."Among experimental philosophers Faraday holds by universal consent the foremost place. The memoirs in which his discoveries are enshrined will never ceaseto be read with admiration and delight; and future generations will preserve with an affection not less enduring the personal records and familiar letters which recall the memory of his humble and unselfish spirit."Edmund Whittaker in A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity. unknown

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FIZEAU, ARMAND HIPPOLYTE - THE FIZEAU EXPERIMENT ON THE VELOCITY OF LIGHT IN MEDIABiblio.com

Sur les Hypothèses relatives a Lèther lumineux. Et sur une expérience qui parait démontrer que le mouvement des corps change la vitesse avec laquelle la lumiere se propage dans leur interieur; Presenté à l'Academie des Sciences dans sa séance du 29 se.

1859ref. 43122Paris Victor Masson Imprimerie de Bachelier 1859. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf raised bands gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage and on verso of plates. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique" 3me Series - Tome LVII. 512 pp. and 4 plates. The entire volume offered. Fizeau's paper: pp. 385-404. Some scattered brownspots. First printing of a highly importent paper in the history of physics "It 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 full text of the research there appeared an extract of it in Comptes Rendus in 1851. 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 comparingthe 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. hardcover

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FRESNEL, AUGUSTIN - EXPOUNDING THE WAVE THEORY OF LIGHTBiblio.com

Ueber die durch polarisirtes Lichts in homogenen Flüssigkeiten hervorgebrachten Farben. .der Pariser Academie am 30. März 1818 vorgelegt. Ueber die Reflexion des Lichts. Der Pariser Academie vorgelegt am 15. Nov. 1819. 2 Mémoirs.

1848ref. 44100Leipzig Johann Ambrosius Barth 1848. Without wrappers. In "Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hrsg. von J.C. Poggendorff" Ergänzungsbd. Bd. II Stück 2. Titlepage to Erg-Bd. 2. Pp. 193-368. The entire issue offered. Fresnel's papers: pp. 304-331 textillustr. a. pp. 332-355 textillustr. A stamp on titlepage and verso of. Clean and fine. First German editions of two importent memoirs on polarization and reflexion of light by "the founder of the new optics". The French versions of the papers appeared in "Annales de Chimie et de Physique"1846.The first paper takes on a central role in Fresnel's dealing with polarization in general and specially with chromatioc polarization and the explaining the phenomena that arises when light travels through crystals. The paper was read at the Academy on march 30 was not printed at the time as it disappeared and only turned up many years later around 1845 when it was found in the papers of Fresnel's brother. "On croyait ou Mémoire perdu. Il a été retrouvé dans les papiers de M. Léonor Fresnel frère de l'illustre académicien." Thus the offered paper is here PRINTED FOR THE FIRST TIME AND IN ITS FULL LENGHT in the German version.The second paper deals with reflection and explains the different phenomena seen when light is reflected from glassplates having two surfaces parallel or with curvature interference of reflected waves and the measure of their different wavelenghts all explained according to the wave theory of light. The paper offered is for the FIRST TIME PRINTED IN ITS FULL LENGHT in the German version as it only appeared in the résumé-form in 1820 "Résumé d'un Mémoire sur la Réflexion de la lumière" Annales de Chimie et de Physique tome 15 pp. 379-386."As it was Fresnel succeeded fully in attaining his explicit goal the establishment of the wave conception of light. Not long after his death scientific opinion definitely shiftedin favor of waves and opened up the pathway leading to the deeper insight of Maxwell. In broad context Fresnel's work can be viewed as the first successfull assault on the theory of imponderables and a major influence on the development of nineteenth-centurty energetics." DSB V p. 171. unknown

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