STANDARD MEASUREMENT FOR THE VOLT: “On a Standard Voltaic Battery” (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 164 for the Year 1874, pp. 1-14)
London: Royal Society of London, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. v, [4], [1]-818 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. Very Good. Item #27564
Latimer Clark's first attempt to determine a standard measurement for the ‘volt.’
Also contains William Crookes' "On Attraction and Repulsion Resulting from Radiation" and J. Norman Lockyer's: "Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in Connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. No. III & No. IV" (pp. 479-494 and 805-813).
Price: $175.00