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197582 pages. Chapters include: the need for ventilation, natural ventilation of glasshouses, fan ventilation of glasshouses, ventilation of film plastics houses, control systems, control theory, crop ventilation requirments, economics, saftey. Includees diagrams and black and white photos. Former owner's name upon title page. Book
1952564 pages including almost 100 pages of index. Chapters include: automobile electricity principles; useful electrical information; the ignition system; magneto ignition; the sparking plug; automobile electrical circuits; the dynamo or generator; the starting motor; the lighting and accessories system; electrical repairs and armature rewinding; automobile batteries; car radio; the law and the motor vehicle. With 8 black and white plates and a multitude of line drawings and other illustrations. A very interesting and now historical look at automotive technology. Book
1989401 pages. Map endpapers. Many black and white illustrations within text. "From dinosaurs to dynamos, here at last is the true story of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam!" - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked. Some lean to spine. Obituary of William Clark Mearns affixed inside back board. Very light wear overall. Nice copy. Book
1950275 pages. Glossary. Index. "Written for the practical man, this book provides the information and instruction which years of experience have shown to be most useful in solving actual problems arising in every shop and yard. Everything a direct current motor user and operator needs to know, from basic theory to all details of the construction, operation, and servicing of each part of the motor, is here." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's name upon front free endpaper else unmarked with light wear. Printed on quality glossy stock. Dust jacket heavily worn. A sound copy. Book
193568 pages. A course of practical lessons in Elementary Electricity for grades VII, VIII and IX. Average wear. Minimal markings. A sound copy of this concise and practical text. Book
1995112 pages. Features: Risa Buck went off the grid in Ashland; Kurt Nelson combines solar electricity and science education in a space station simulator for students in Wausau, WI; Mark Whitaker powers some of his appliances with solar electricity; Ely Schless's electric power bike; Electric Vehicle Charging and Maintenance; Visit to a lead recycling factory; The evolution of hot water heaters; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
199596 pages. Features: Dennis Ramsey installed two photovoltaic-powered lighting systems in Nepal; Robert Siebert feeds solar electricity into the local grid from his 'patio cover'; Solar Cooking in Nepal; Upcoming production electric vehicles; Electric Voltsrabbit; Jonathan Tennyson's electric vehicles in Hawaii; Electric Vehicle Testing & Troubleshooting; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
195820 pages. Reprint of the 1946 first edition. Reproductions of many archival black and white photos. "The reminiscent stories and pictures of our diistrict herein make this a priceless souvenir." - from inside front cover. Topics include: New Denver in Olden Days, Eldorado Named, Poverty Flat, Hotels, Industries, Farms, Recreation, S.S. Wm. Hunter, Mines, Roads of the Community, Water, Lights and Electricity, Water, Parks, Bridges, Railways, Schools, Hospitals, Telephones, Police and Law, Telephones, Mail, Fires, Wharves, Churches, Beauties of New Denver, Newspapers, Eli Carpenter, R.T. Lowery, William Thomlinson, The Japanese in New Denver - recreation, logging, schools, summer school, sanitorium, crematorium. Four hand-written corrections to celebration details on red card covers, otherwise moderate wear. Binding sound. Book
198978 pages. Features: Electricity in the Garden - Part 1; Fences and Hedges; Another Diesel Project; The Border Counties Ry-Part 2; Body-Mounting Kadee Couplers; Roadbed to Golden Spike - Finale; A Line's Lines; Build a Propane Burner; A Garden Railway the Hard Way. Moderate wear. A sound copy.. Book
1904192 pages plus 47 pages of ads at back. "Before 1879 the electrical industry did not exist. It has made tremendous progress in the twenty odd years since it was born - progress much more rapid than that made, say, by the steam-engine a century ago." - from page 2. Doesn't that sound like the state of the internet in the mid-1990s, or the blockchain explosion of recent years? Chapters include: The Birth of the Electrical Industry; The Early Days of Electric Lighting; Electric Lighting in London and the Provinces; The Early Days of Electric Traction; The Development of Electric Inter-Urban Tramways; Electric Railways; Electric Power - An Industrial Revolution; The Economies of Electric Power; Electric-Power Distribution Schemes; Electrical Engineering as a Career; The Future of the Electrical Industry. Above-average but not excessive wear to red cloth exterior. Binding intact. Two small contemporary book vendor artifacts inside back board, otherwise unmarked. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating historical item. Book
1938pp. [4], 5-96. 19 x 13cm. "A book of more than two dozen exemplifications wherein electricity clearly illustrates Christianity". - Subtitle. Author was a rectifier field specialist for General Electric. "A most illuminating book. Mr. Strickland's knowledge of electricity and his own personal faith in the Christian religion, along with his ability to express himself in the language of the layman have fitted him for the writing of this unique book". - dust jacket. Unmarked with above-average but not excessive wear to publisher's blue cloth. Binding intact. Considerable tanning to contents. Above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating study. A nice gift idea for your special Christian electrician! Book
195316 p. Ephemera Very good condition On electricity, history, production and uses
196116 p. Ephemera Very good condition
195516 p. Ephemera Very good condition
1859769p. Hardcover Ex-library, very good condition, rebound, binding worn and backstrip detached and laid in, patent stamps on t.p.
1957Prize label inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly dusty unmarked red cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 272pp. For anyone wanting to learn about wireless, radio and early television. Illustrated.
1933No marks or inscriptions to contents and no creasing to covers. Very clean very tight pages with slightly rubbed slightly dusty card covers and no bumping to corners. 99pp. Clear diagrams and text of seventy different electrical circuits.
1925Previous owner's name inside both front boards. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Two very clean very tight copies with bright very faintly marked boards, slight sunning to spines and no bumping to corners. 760pp. Undated but ca 1920s.
1979No marks or inscriptions to contents and no creasing to covers. A clean very tight copy with slightly tanned foxed covers and no bumping to corners. 10pp. Friends of the Earth Energy Paper No 2.
1971A little foxing. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 32pp. The effects of tall chimneys from industrial processes on pollution levels. Very scarce.
1960No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, front end paper missing, foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tape repairs to spine ends and upper front corner and with rubbing to edges. 407pp. A comprehensive study from a wide range of expert authors including the basics of thermoelectricity, materials subjected to high temperatures and the proceedings of the Conference on Thermoelectricity sponsored by the Naval Research Laboratory in 1958.
1901294pp, 393pp VG/none First edition. Editorial red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, minimal signs of wear, internally in excellent conditions, tight and clean, volume II almost entirely unopened, overall a very good, nice set. Collection of the technical (vol. I) and scientific (vol. II) papers by John Hopkinson, with many diagrams and charts including a memoir of Hopkinson and his portrait facing the frontespice of volume I. Not ex-library, scarce set to be found in such a good condition.
1758In -4°, pp. (10), 159, (1), frontespizio in rosso e nero, legatura in cartonato coevo con titolo manoscritto al dorso. Prima e unica edizione di uno dei primi saggi italiani ed europei di psichiatria moderna; include un cospicuo resoconto sulla “medicina elettrica”, ovvero l’applicazione di fenomeni elettromagnetici alla cura del paziente: anche in questo caso il saggio è da considerarsi fra i primi mai elaborati e pubblicati sulla materia. Pietro Cornacchini, filosofo e medico senese, pubblica questo suo manuale nello stesso anno del “Treatise on Madness”, dell’inglese William Battie, considerato il trattato più importante del primo Settecento sulla cura della follia. Come testimoniato nel suo libro, in quegli anni si cominciava a sviluppare in Europa un approccio non repressivo e non reclusivo al malato e alla malattia mentale. Cornacchini è senz’altro fra i pionieri di questo tipo di studi, e il suo manuale è riconosciuto come il primo approccio fisiologico complesso dell’epoca moderna, in Italia, alla malattia mentale: si veda la “Storia della medicina in Italia”, di Salvatore De Renzi (Napoli, 1848, tomo V, pp. 759 sgg.) in cui l’autore riconosce a Cornacchini un anticipo di 14 anni sull’opera giovanile di un altro medico, Antonio Sementini, e addirittura di 35 sul lavoro che giudica il più importante del secolo, cioè “Della pazzia” di Chiarugi (1793). Il libro di Cornacchini succede solo a un altro trattatello, del ’57, cioè “Della mania, della frenesia e della rabbia” di Antonio Arrigoni, scritto che, in contrasto con il presente, trascurava la fisiologia per concentrarsi sul trattamento di queste patologie. Dopo aver distinto la malattia mentale in “tre specie” (frenesia, mania, malinconia), l’autore si addentra in spiegazioni fisiologiche: “Chi potrà negare - scrive - che la cagine [sic] immediata della Pazzia risieda [negli] organi interni, e che sia tutta materiale?” A osservazioni piuttosto dettagliate sulla circolazione sanguigna e sui fluidi corporali, si accompagnano altre considerazioni sperimentali o ipotetiche fra cui quella che la follia sarebbe connessa a una maggiore “durezza” del cervello o comunque alla consistenza di quest’organo (“Tanti autori confermano che il cervello de’ maniaci è stato ritrovato per lo più arido e friabile”). Al di là di quest’approccio, il volume si configura come un vero e proprio antesignano, in Italia, di un modo di considerare il malato di mente, anche sul piano lessicale: non a caso Cornacchini termina la sua disquisizione respingendo anche in senso terminologico “l’odioso nome di Pazzi”. Non meno intrigante e innovativo è il saggio che prosegue il volume, ovvero i due saggi “sopra la medicina elettrica”. L’argomento è a sua volta recentissimo e pionieristico, come chiarisce l’autore stesso che mette all’origine di questi studi il padovano Giovanni Francesco Pivati, il quale nel ’49 aveva pubblicato il suo “Riflessioni fisiche sopra la medicina elettrica”; l’approccio di Cornacchini alla materia è radicalmente diverso da quello di Pivati, ed è basato esclusivamente sull’applicazione di elettricità: Pivati e altri suoi seguaci erano convinti che, per una cura efficace, si dovessero applicare dei farmaci ai diversi conduttori di elettricità impiegati allora, mentre il parere di Cornacchini è che si dovesse procedere “senza intonacatura di medicamento alcuno”. In questo la posizione di Cornacchini è più aderente a quello che sarebbe stato il proseguimento degli studi a riguardo, e la sua esposizione va considerata più moderna e innovativa anche rispetto all’altra monografia pubblicata precedentemente in merito, quella del bolognese Veratti (“Osservazioni fisico mediche intorno all’elettricità”, Bologna, sempre del’49). Il discorso sull’elettricità di Cornacchini è piuttosto nutrito e addirittura sovrasta per quantità la prima parte del libro, impegnandone più di cento pagine. La prosa è limpida e avvincente: al di là della ricerca strettamente medica e delle descrizioni di casi clinici, non mancano cenni di proto-elettrotecnica (l’elettricità era ancora all’epoca un fenomeno curioso ma con scarse applicazioni pratiche). An early and rare work of psychiatry, in its first and only edition, this is one of earliest Italian and European modern book in this field. It includes a huge writing on “electric medicine”, i.e. the application of electromagnetic issues to illness care. Also this part has to be considered between the first essays ever published on the matter. Pietro Cornacchini, a physician and a philosopher from Siena, publishes this handbook in the same year of William Battie’s “Treatise on Madness”, a writing considered the most important of the early Century about madness’ care. A forerunner of non-reclusive psychiatry, Cornacchini writes the first complex physiological study on madness of modern age (see “Storia della medicina in Italia” by Salvatore De Renzi, Naples, 1848, in which the author assigns to Cornacchini 35 years of advance on the most important Italian work on madness of the Century, “Della Pazzia” by Chiarugi, 1793). Cornacchini’s book is published a year later of another handbook, “Della Mania, della Frenesia e della Rabbia”, by Antonio Arrigoni, that however ruled a non physiological approach to the matter. After giving a classification of different kinds of madness (frenesia, mania, malinconia), the author gives some original physiological explications, as like the madness connected to brain consistency. Beyond this, the volume is a pionering work on the way to consider the mental illness as a pathology to be treated with respect of the patient, starting with an appropriate use of language (at the end of the work the author rejects as obnoxious the word “Pazzi”, mad, for the mentaly ill). No less important can be considered the second part of volume, about “electric medicine”, a rising field, studied in Europe before the development of more important practical implementing of electricity. Cornacchini’s approach is different by most of contemporary works about: many researches required to add a drug to electric devices to be efficient; only later was demonstrated, as like Cornacchini assumes, that the electric application could be a treatment itself, and the pharmaceutical addition as unnecessary.
Gauthier-Villars. 1941. In-8 Carré. Broché. Bon état. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos frotté. Intérieur frais. 114 pages. Tampons et annotations de bibliothèque sur le 1er plat et en page de titre. Couverture se détachant. Généralités sur les équations de Maxwell. Propagation des ondes dans les guides électriques. Calcul des pertes dans les guides électriques...
Gauthier-Villars. 1900. In-8 Carré. Relié. Etat d'usage. Couv. légèrement passée. Dos frotté. Intérieur acceptable. 614 pages. Illustré de nombreux graphiques et schémas en noir et blanc dans le texte. Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampon et annotation de bibliothèque en page de titre. Rappel des principes généraux de la Mécanique et de la thermodynamique. Electrostatique, Condensateur. Loi d'Ohm. Induction...
