Manuscripts

Oliver Heaviside: articles and correspondence about

Image not available

Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1968-1975.
Call number: mssHM 83033-83035
Creator: Gossick, B. R (1914-)(Opens in new tab)

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

Image not available

Maxwell's Demon: article

Manuscripts

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).

mssHM 80283

Image not available

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

Image not available

Henry M. Paynter letter to Bern Dibner

Manuscripts

In this two-page letter to Dibner, Paynter comments on Dibner's recent series of articles published in the journal Electrical engineering. Paynter asks for Dibner's "interest and support in another project" involving the "origin and development of the now commonplace electric circuit symbols." The copies of his notes are for Paynter's class at MIT, "Analysis and design of engineering systems" (course 2.751). This is an incomplete copy.

mssHM 75974

Image not available

Articles About

Manuscripts

Three articles written about Otis Chandler in 1968.

mssLAT

Image not available

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

Oliver Heaviside: articles and correspondence about

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Georg Ohm really said: article and correspondence

Maxwell's Demon: article

Cecil B. DeMille letter to Bern Dibner

Henry M. Paynter letter to Bern Dibner

Articles About

The electrical engineering profession in the past century: speech