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HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-1894). "Über sehr schnelle electrische Schwingungen." -- "Nachtrag zu der Abhandling über sehr schnelle electrische Schwingungen." -- "Über einen Einfluss des ultravioletten Lichtes auf die electrische Entladung." Three papers in: Annalen der Physik und Chemie, n.s, 31 (1887): 421 -- 48, 543-44, 983-1000. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1887.
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HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-1894). "Über sehr schnelle electrische Schwingungen." -- "Nachtrag zu der Abhandling über sehr schnelle electrische Schwingungen." -- "Über einen Einfluss des ultravioletten Lichtes auf die electrische Entladung." Three papers in: Annalen der Physik und Chemie, n.s, 31 (1887): 421 -- 48, 543-44, 983-1000. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1887.
8o. 7 folding plates. Contemporary marbled boards, cloth backstrip.
FIRST EDITION. Hertz was the first to demonstrate experimentally that electromagnetic waves radiate in space at the speed of light, just as Maxwell had predicted in his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873). Hertz determined that electromagnetic waves were longer than light waves and showed that they were in complete correspondence with the waves of light and heat in the transverse nature of their vibration and their susceptibility to reflection, refraction, and polarization. Hertz did not pursue the practical applications of his investigations, which in the hands of Marconi and others led eventually to the development of wireless airwave technology. Hook and Norman, Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine, no. 1060. OOC 157.
[With:] HERTZ. Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung der elektrischen Kraft. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1892. Wood-engraved text illustrations. Original orange printed wrappers; boxed. Provenance: Haskell F. Norman (sold Christie's New York, 29 October 1998, lot 1125).
FIRST EDITION. Reprints of papers on electrical waves originally published between 1887 and 1890 in the Annalen der Physik und Chemie, with explanatory notes and Hertz's thirty-one-page introduction. Rare in the original printed wrappers. PMM 377. Hook and Norman, Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine, 1062. OOC 158.
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FIRST EDITION. Hertz was the first to demonstrate experimentally that electromagnetic waves radiate in space at the speed of light, just as Maxwell had predicted in his Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873). Hertz determined that electromagnetic waves were longer than light waves and showed that they were in complete correspondence with the waves of light and heat in the transverse nature of their vibration and their susceptibility to reflection, refraction, and polarization. Hertz did not pursue the practical applications of his investigations, which in the hands of Marconi and others led eventually to the development of wireless airwave technology. Hook and Norman, Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine, no. 1060. OOC 157.
[With:] HERTZ. Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung der elektrischen Kraft. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1892. Wood-engraved text illustrations. Original orange printed wrappers; boxed. Provenance: Haskell F. Norman (sold Christie's New York, 29 October 1998, lot 1125).
FIRST EDITION. Reprints of papers on electrical waves originally published between 1887 and 1890 in the Annalen der Physik und Chemie, with explanatory notes and Hertz's thirty-one-page introduction. Rare in the original printed wrappers. PMM 377. Hook and Norman, Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine, 1062. OOC 158.
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