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Hans Christian Ørsted autobiography: typescript of translation
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Copy of translation of Hans Christian Ørsted's autobiography sent by Robert C. Stauffer, an associate professor in the Department of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to Bern Dibner. The translation, which is heavily marked up, is by Martha Trytten. Also includes a copy of a one-page undated letter from Trytten to Stauffer regarding the translation, and a one-page cover letter from Stauffer, who had initially requested the translation, to Bern Dibner, dated 1965, August 24.
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Maxwell's Demon: article
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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).
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Electrical technology in the 19th century: the electrochemical cell and the electromagnet: typescript draft of article
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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.
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British electrical industry lag: 1882-1888: conference paper
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Copy of a 26-page typescript for a conference paper written and delivered by Thomas Parke Hughes at the New York Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1960, accompanied by an abstract, conference agenda, and letter from Hughes to Bern Dibner dated 1960, December 6, noting that Dibner was to be the session's commentator.
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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.
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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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