Manuscripts
Maxwell's Demon: article
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Cecil B. DeMille letter to Bern Dibner
Manuscripts
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
Manuscripts
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
Manuscripts
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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The electrical engineering profession in the past century: speech
Manuscripts
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
Manuscripts
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
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Sydney Ross typescripts and letter to Bern Dibner
Manuscripts
Six typescripts, one periodical with an article, and one letter written by Sydney Ross and sent to Bern Dibner. The collection contains three versions of Faraday Consults the Scholars, a lecture given by Ross at the Burndy Library in 1957; HM 83202 and HM 83202 a typescript versions of the talk from 1957 and 1960, and HM 83204 is a typescript of the author's prepublication edition of Faraday Consults the Scholars: The Origin of the Terms of Electrochemistry. Materials also include a typed letter from Ross to Bern Dibner dated 1958, December 9; three typescripts by Ross on various topics in the history of science; and an issue of Rensselaer Research, Summer, 1958, with an article by Ross.
mssHM 83202-83209