Letter. 1900.

Dibner, Bern.

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Thompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips), 1851-1916

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English physicist; author of works on electricity and magnetism, and on lives of scientists. Thompson had hoped to get enough subscriptions to print this work however it didn't materialize. There is a printed order form tipped in, saying the edition would be limited to 225 copies and printed by Ernest Enthoven at the Essex House Press. From the description of Albrecht Dürer's Geometry : manuscript translation of the 1538 edition of Underweysung der Mussung, ca. 1900. (Unknown). Worl...

Jervis-Smith, Frederick John 1848-

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Physicist, experimental mechanic, electrical engineer, and inventor; Fellow of the Royal Society; established the Millard Laboratory at Trinity College, Oxford, 1885, and was University Lecturer in Mechanics, 1888-1908. His inventions included the liquid microphone (1879) and the tram chronograph (1888), the latter used in measuring high-speed events such as explosions and gunshots. His work supplemented Oxford's physics teaching, and laid the foundations of its Engineering Science school. ...