Manuscripts
Physica generalis
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Alessandro Volta receipts
Manuscripts
These two receipts were signed by Alessandro Volta in Milan. They are in Italian. The first receipt (a) is dated 1780, January 3 and the second receipt (b) is dated 1781, July 19.
mssHM 81241 (a & b)
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Cours supérieur. L'Electricité
Manuscripts
A manuscript textbook on the principles of electricity, illustrated with 38 ink drawings. Suzanne Fessart references experiments by Benjamin Franklin, Luigi Galvani, Jesse Ramsden, and Alessandro Volta.
mssHM 84071
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Carlo Maria Bonaparte university lecture notes
Manuscripts
Untrimmed, written in a neat cursive hand. Possibly lacking the first leaf with title to the first section. Text in Latin with some annotations in Italian. With 34 pen and ink drawings in the text.
mssHM 82471
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Electrical technology in the 19th century: the electrochemical cell and the electromagnet: typescript draft of article
Manuscripts
Copy of typescript of the first of a series of three articles by W. James King that would be published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1962 as the three-volume bulletin entitled The Development of Electrical Technology in the 19th Century. The typescript contains editorial marks, and includes an Introductory Statement declaring the purpose of the series to be "to provide some convenient landmarks in the development of electrical technology in the 19th century." The typescript discusses the early research of Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta in the late 1700s, and focuses on the development of the electrochemical cell and the electromagnet, devices instrumental in the invention of electric motors in the mid-19th century. Also includes a one-page letter written by King to Bern Dibner responding to a letter from Dibner and inviting Dibner to visit the Niels Bohr Library for the History of Physics.
mssHM 83042-83043
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Georg Ohm really said: article and correspondence
Manuscripts
Typescript of article written by Joseph H. Sutton. The article concerns Georg Ohm's work describing the electrical circuit. Also includes three letters, two written by Dibner to Sutton and dated March 24, 1965 and July 18, 1966 and one from Sutton to Dibner, dated March 23, 1966. The letters discuss Sutton's work on Ohm and on Gustav Kirchhoff, and mention that Dibner sent Sutton material concerning Alessandro Volta.
mssHM 83095
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Cesare Borgia : the Machiavellian prince :
Manuscripts
Two-volume typewritten draft of Cesare Borgia : the Machiavellian prince by Carlo Beuf, published by Oxford University Press in 1942. Contains handwritten edits.
mssHM 84342