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THOMSON, Joseph John. Applications of dynamics to physics and chemistry. London and New York: Macmillan, 1888.
8o. 1 leaf of undated publisher's advertisements bound in. Original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine (wear at ends of spine). Provenance: William Henry Bragg, physicist (signature on title) -- William Lawrence Bragg, physicist (bookplate) -- Haskell F. Norman (bookplate, sale Christie's New York, 29 OCtober 1988, lot 1323, part). Like Thomson, William Lawrence Bragg, discoverer of X-ray analysis, was director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge.
FIRST EDITION. "A treatise based upon the problem of the transformation of energy. One of the principal investigations discussed was of the action of an electrified atom in causing water vapor to condense around it, a problem that had bearings on Thomson's future work" (Norman). Also included is the suggestion that electricity flows in metals and in electrolytes, which was to be of importance for his electron theory of metals. Norman 2074.
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FIRST EDITION. "A treatise based upon the problem of the transformation of energy. One of the principal investigations discussed was of the action of an electrified atom in causing water vapor to condense around it, a problem that had bearings on Thomson's future work" (Norman). Also included is the suggestion that electricity flows in metals and in electrolytes, which was to be of importance for his electron theory of metals. Norman 2074.