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Maxwell's Demon: article

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Description: This manuscript is a copy of Daub's article entitled "Maxwell's Demon" (he sent the copy to Bern Dibner). The manuscript deals with Maxwell's demon, thermodynamics, and J.Loschmidt's non-demon. With the manuscript are two letters: one by Daub to Dibner and Dibner's reply (1970, January-February).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1970.
Call number: mssHM 80283
Creator: Daub, Edward E(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.
Associated people: Dibner, Bern,

Cecil B. DeMille letter to Bern Dibner

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The letter by DeMille to Bern Dibner thanks Dibner for a copy of Dibner's book, Moving the Obelisks, and refers to the raising of the obelisk for the film, the Ten Commandments. The letter is signed by DeMille.

mssHM 83067

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Oliver Heaviside: articles and correspondence about

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Copies of three articles written by B. R. Gossick about English electrical engineer, physicist, and mathematician Oliver Heaviside, dated 1968 (29 pages), 1973 (15 pages), and 1974 (2 pages). Also includes three letters dated 1968 between Bern Dibner and William J. Crouch, editor of the University of Kentucky Press, regarding Dibner's review of the 1968 article and another article by Gossick, regarding Charles Wheatstone, for publication; and three letters, two dated 1968 and one dated 1975, between Gossick and Dibner regarding the articles on Heaviside.

mssHM 83033-83035

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Maxwell as a Student: speech

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This paper, which Everitt delivered at the Washington meeting of the History of Science Society in December 1969, deals with Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell and British scientist Michael Faraday. It is accompanied by a letter by Everitt to Bern Dibner gifting him the copy of the paper.

mssHM 80259

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Discussion of atmospheric phenomena from electricity: draft translation of treatise

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Copy of a translation from the Russian into English of a manuscript about atmospheric electricity originally written by Mikhail Vasilevich Lomonosov in 1753. The translation, by David Kraus of the American Meteorological Society, resulted from a request made by Bernard Vonnegut of the Department of Atmospheric Science at the State University of New York in Albany in 1963. Also includes a letter dated 1970, May 28 from Bernard Vonnegut to Bern Dibner enclosing the typescript and stating that Lomonosov's work in some ways paralleled that of Benjamin Franklin, and a response from Bern Dibner dated 1970, June 29 thanking Vonnegut for the donation and encouraging Vonnegut's investigation of Franklin's electrical chimes.

mssHM 83097-83099

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The electrical engineering profession in the past century: speech

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The paper by Morris D. Hooven was delivered at the Symposium on the Role of the Organized Profession, Centennial of Engineering, 1952, September 3, in Chicago, Illinois. Also includes typed letter from Hooven to Bern Dibner dated 1954, February 16, enclosing the typescript and praising Dibner's contributions to the history of engineering.

mssHM 83084

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Demonstration lectures at Oxford: Keill and Desaguliers: conference paper and essay

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Copy of an 8-page conference paper written by Jon S. Steen and presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Junto [for the History of Science], April 11, 1969, and the 17-page essay by Steen on which it was based. Both manuscripts address the role of the demonstration lecture, a popular type of public instruction in London in the early 18th century, in the popularization of science. Also includes typed letter to Bern Dibner dated 1969, May 26, discussing Dibner's request for a copy of the Junto paper.

mssHM 83094

Maxwell's Demon: article

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