Manuscripts

Georg Ohm really said: article and correspondence

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1965-1966.
Call number: mssHM 83095
Creator: Sutton, Joseph H(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006.

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.

mssHM 83072

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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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Alessandro Volta receipts

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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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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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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

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Correspondence

Manuscripts

Contains letters to and from H. Rider Haggard; written from London, South Africa, Wales, Norfolk, California, Canada, New York, and Washington, D.C. Includes Theodore Roosevelt letters signed to Haggard dated 1905 March 11 (HM 43669) and 1905 June 24 (HM 43570).

mssHM 43398-43700

Georg Ohm really said: article and correspondence

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