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The electrical light for industrial uses: pamphlets

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Description: Two copies of Rookes Evelyn Crompton's published pamphlet, each marked up, perhaps by the author, for another edition. Copy One includes six pages of handwritten text at the beginning, as well as a clipping regarding the Electrical Power Storage Company, a price list for and description of the Elmore Dynamo-Electric machine, and an annotation regarding the Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition of 1882. Copy Two has extensive highlighting and annotation, including marginalia.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1880-1882.
Call number: mssHM 83018-83019
Creator: Crompton, R. E (1845-1940)(Opens in new tab)
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The electric light for industrial uses

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Electric lighting : it's state and progress

Manuscripts

A firsthand description of the production and introduction of electric light into London, by an electrical engineer working in England. In particular, it details two 19th century lighting apparatuses: the Rapieff electric light apparatus, and the Jablochkoff system of lighting. Bird appears to have been directly involved in the electrification of South London.

mssHM 83775

Two men receiving Electrical West awards for contributions to the literature of the electrical industry

Visual Materials

Two men receiving Electrical West awards for contributions to the literature of the electrical industry.

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Interior view of the New York crystal palace for the Exhibition of the industry of All Nations

Visual Materials

Image of the interior view under the East Nave of the Crystal Palace exhibition building for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York, New York, in 1853-1854; people walk through the galleries and admire the sculptures on display; 25 named directors and their offices are listed below image.

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Appareil à Gaz: manuscript, letter, diagram, and note

Manuscripts

One five-page manuscript entitled Appareil à Gaz describing an illuminating gas plant, plus one diagram of the gas works and a letter (two pages), written by Lankez? to Monsieur Banuel? from Metz, France, and dated 1819. The manuscript includes emendations and marginalia, and the diagram covers both pages of a 30 x 43 cm folded sheet that contains calculations and a brief annotation on verso. Also includes one sealed note with text, "appareil pour la production du gaz à éclairage, No. 11."

mssHM 83200

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Notes on the history of electrical science: typescript of book

Manuscripts

Copy of 51-page typescript of book written by Lyle D. Feisel and two pages of correspondence between Feisel and Bern Dibner. The typescript concerns the history of electrical science and includes chapters on the work of scientists including William Gilbert, Otto von Guericke, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Augustin Coulomb, Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, Hans Christian Oersted, André-Marie Ampère, Georg Ohm, Michael Faraday, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Wilhelm Weber, and James Clerk Maxwell. In a letter written by Feisel to Dibner enclosing the typescript and dated 1972, February 28, Feisel mentions earlier correspondence between the two and describes the Notes, thanking Dibner for his interest in the history of electrical science. In a letter written in response dated 1972, March 7, Dibner mentions a list of publications on the history of electricity and magnetism and invites Feisel to join the Society for the History of Technology.

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