Sosman (145 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pp225-234. Removed from ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1921. VG. In plastic report covers. From the introduction: "The subject-matter of geophysical-chemistry may be defined as 'the physical properties and chemical reactions of the substances and aggregates that make up the earth.' It may therefore be roughly divided into two parts: A. Properties and reactions of materials accessible at the earth's surface. B. Properties and reactions of materials in the earth's interior.".

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 10pp extract, savaged from a damaged copy of the Annual Report Of The Board of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution For The Year Ending June 30, 1921. Author was at the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington. In mylar report cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Vintage Hardcover, First Edition 1940 American Society for Metals 100 pages. Very Good, no jacket. Minor shelf/edge wear to dark red cloth boards with gilt titles - corners sharp, with a touch of wear to the tips. Has the stamp of the Claud S. Gordon Company of Cleveland, Ohio on FFEP and LFEP. All other pages are clean and unmarked. A series of three educational lectures presented to members of The American Society For Metals during the Twentieth National Metal Congress and Exposition in Detroit, Mich Oct 17 to 21 1938. A very handsome First Edition.LOC SSE-07.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1,362 pp. Tightly bound. Top corner back board lightly bumped. Text is free of markings. Owner's name front paste down. Some mustiness from being stored in a box in a basement. NOTE: EX-LIBRARY COPY. Call number on spine of book. No ex-library stamps or markings on page edges. PLEASE NOTE: (1) This copy is the 1956 printing of the 1941 publication. (2) This copy has 1,362 pages.

Journal of Industrial and Engeneering Chemistry 8: 15p, 3 figs 8vo, offprint.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. covers have minor wear, corners and ends of spine heave heavy wear, binding tight, pages unmarked, 100 pages including index, series of 3 lectures presented to members of the American Society for Metals during the Twentieth National Metal Congress and Exposition in Detroit Michigan in 1938 on the measurement of temperatures and gradients in metals, bw illustrations Size: 6.25 x 9.25.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No jacket. First Printing of the First US Edition. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1951. Very Good condition but for a shadow on the front pastedown endpaper where a bookplate has been neatly removed. NOT a library discard. A bright, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. NO owner's name. NO remainder mark. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Hardcover. First Printing of the First American Edition. Illustrated. Translated from the German by J. G. Phillips and T. G. Madgwick with the collaboration of R. B. Sosman. "With Revisions and Additions by the Author." From the Translator's Preface: "[This book is] a thorough and comprehensive text on the principles and diverse phenomena involved in the heterogeneous fusion equilibria in silicate multi-component systems." Bound in the original black cloth, lettered in gold on the spine. Keywords: Silicate Chemistry. Binary systems. Ternary systems. Quaternary systems. Polynary systems. First Printing of the First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. x, 159pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Journal of the Franklin Institute Dec. 1922: 741-764, 7 figs 8vo, offprint.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Near Fine hardcover. No dust jacket. First Edition First Printing. Previous owner's name blacked out on the title page else Fine. Clean, bright and tight. No writing or other marks. We wrap and box our books for shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Condition : Fair/ study copy in worn covers. Hard cover, no jacket. Former university library copy with associated markings. 159pp. No highlighting or annotations. Shelf wear/edges rubbed. Photo on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No Jacket. 1895 printing of 1893 original. Boston: Ginn & Company, Publishers, 1895. Very Good condition but for a narrow strip (3/4 inch) cut from the top of title page (to remove a previous owner's name?). Chapter IX is an Historical Summary (pp. 267-275). Appendix (6 tables). Index. Bound in the original black cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. This copy is from the library of, and bears the small ink stamp of Robert B. Sosman. In addition, his tiny signature and "M.I.T." are pencilled on the front pastedown endpaper. A geophysicist and physical chemist, Robert Browning Sosman received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, at the age of 26. By 1908 he had joined the Geo-Physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Sosman worked at the Geo-Physical Laboratory for 20 years, serving 8 years as Assistant Director. During World War I, his contributions there were instrumental in establishing America's capacity for manufacturing optical glass. In 1928 he left to join the United States Steel Corporation as Assistant Director of Research. Following his retirement from U.S. Steel in 1947, he became visiting professor of Ceramics at Rutgers University. Dr. Sosman was a past president of the American Ceramic Society. In his honor, the Society established The Robert B. Sosman Award, "the highest recognition of scientific accomplishment given by the Basic Science Division. in recognition of outstanding achievement in basic science of an area that results in a significant impact to the field of ceramics." . 1895 printing of 1893 original. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No Jacket. 8vo. 287pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1945 EDITION; hardcover; minor shelfwear w/ slight fraying of cloth covers at head of spine; light foxing of edges; o/w in very good condition. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Near Very Good condition. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition. [Charlottesville]: University of Virginia, 1928. Near Very Good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. With 19 figures and 28 plates in the text, bibliography, and index. Includes 3 (of 4) folding maps in a pocket at the end. The pocket is edgeworn and frayed, but the maps are in perfect condition. Bound in the original blue wraps. This book is from the library of, and bears the tiny ink stamp of Robert B. Sosman. A geophysicist and physical chemist, Robert Browning Sosman authored THE PHASES OF SILICA (1965, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press). Sosman received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, at the age of 26. By 1908 he had joined the Geo-Physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Sosman worked at the Geo-Physical Laboratory for 20 years, serving 8 years as Assistant Director. During World War I, his contributions were instrumental in establishing America's capacity for manufacturing optical glass. In 1928 he left to join the United States Steel Corporation as Assistant Director of Research. Following his retirement from U.S. Steel in 1947, he became visiting professor of Ceramics at Rutgers University. Dr. Sosman was a past president of the American Ceramic Society. In his honor, the Society established The Robert B. Sosman Award, "the highest recognition of scientific accomplishment given by the Basic Science Division. in recognition of outstanding achievement in basic science of an area that results in a significant impact to the field of ceramics.". First Edition. Softcover. Near Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xii, 205pp. + maps. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Properties of Silica: An Introduction Top the Properties of Substances in the Solid Non-Conducting State. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition. Columbus, Ohio: Geological Survey of Ohio, 1948. Very Good condition. Geological Survey of Ohio. Report of Investigations No. 4. Analyses of coal beds in Athens, Perry, Noble, Morgan, and Washington counties. Map. Tables. This book is from the library of, and bears the tiny ink stamp of Robert B. Sosman. A geophysicist and physical chemist, Robert Browning Sosman authored THE PHASES OF SILICA (1965, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press). Sosman received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, at the age of 26. By 1908 he had joined the Geo-Physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Sosman worked at the Geo-Physical Laboratory for 20 years, serving 8 years as Assistant Director. During World War I, his contributions were instrumental in establishing America's capacity for manufacturing optical glass. In 1928 he left to join the United States Steel Corporation as Assistant Director of Research. Following his retirement from U.S. Steel in 1947, he became visiting professor of Ceramics at Rutgers University. Dr. Sosman was a past president of the American Ceramic Society. In his honor, the Society established The Robert B. Sosman Award, "the highest recognition of scientific accomplishment given by the Basic Science Division. in recognition of outstanding achievement in basic science of an area that results in a significant impact to the field of ceramics.". First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 17pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No jacket. Reeks, Miss M. (illustrator). Fourth Edition, First Impression. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1903. Very Good condition. A clean, square and reasonably tight copy of the scarce 1903 first printing of the 4th revised and enlarged edition. Corners are NOT bumped. Pages are clean. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bound in the original blue cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. This copy is from the personal library of, and bears the small ink stamp of Robert B. Sosman. A geophysicist and physical chemist, Robert Browning Sosman authored THE PHASES OF SILICA (1965, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press). Sosman received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, at the age of 26. By 1908 he had joined the Geo-Physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Sosman worked at the Geo-Physical Laboratory for 20 years, serving 8 years as Assistant Director. During World War I, his contributions there were instrumental in establishing America's capacity for manufacturing optical glass. In 1928 he left to join the United States Steel Corporation as Assistant Director of Research. Following his retirement from U.S. Steel in 1947, he became visiting professor of Ceramics at Rutgers University. Dr. Sosman was a past president of the American Ceramic Society. In his honor, the Society established The Robert B. Sosman Award, "the highest recognition of scientific accomplishment given by the Basic Science Division. in recognition of outstanding achievement in basic science of an area that results in a significant impact to the field of ceramics.". Fourth Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. Illus. by Reeks, Miss M. xxii, 951pp + 40 pages of ads.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good EX-LIBRARY. No jacket. First Edition. New York: The Chemical Catalog Company, Inc., 1927. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. A square, reasonably tight copy. Stamped "WITHDRAWN" on the endpapers. Text pages are unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with figures. Tables. Graphs. Footnotes/bibliographical references. Index and Glossary. Bound in the original dark blue cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. Arthur H. Heuer has called this book "demonstrably the first truly modern treatise in ceramics." It's author, the physical chemist Robert Browning Sosman, received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, at the age of 26. By 1908 he had joined the Geo-Physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Sosman worked at the Geo-Physical Laboratory for 20 years, serving 8 years as Assistant Director. During World War I, his contributions there were instrumental in establishing America's capacity for manufacturing optical glass. In 1928 he left to join the United States Steel Corporation as Assistant Director of Research. Following his retirement from U.S. Steel in 1947, he became visiting professor of Ceramics at Rutgers University. Dr. Sosman was a past president of the American Ceramic Society. In his honor, the Society established The Robert B. Sosman Award, "the highest recognition of scientific accomplishment given by the Basic Science Division. in recognition of outstanding achievement in basic science of an area that results in a significant impact to the field of ceramics.". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No jacket. 8vo. 856pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+ condition. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, 1933. 6" wide by 9" tall. Original printed wrappers. Cover lightly soiled. Text pages are FINE. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with line drawings. From the text: "The Washington mine is on Jonestown Hill, one mile south of Oxford, in northwestern New Jersey. It is producing 16,000 tons of concentrates a month, which are being shipped to the Alan Wood Steel Company's furnaces at Swedeland, Pennsylvania." This copy is from the library of scientist and author Robert B. Sosman, with his tiny ink stamp. A physical chemist, Robert Browning Sosman received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, at the age of 26. By 1908 he had joined the Geo-Physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Sosman worked at the Geo-Physical Laboratory for 20 years, serving 8 years as Assistant Director. During World War I, his contributions there were instrumental in establishing America's capacity for manufacturing optical glass. In 1928 he left to join the United States Steel Corporation as Assistant Director of Research. Following his retirement from U.S. Steel in 1947, he became visiting professor of Ceramics at Rutgers University. Dr. Sosman was a past president of the American Ceramic Society. In his honor, the Society established The Robert B. Sosman Award, "the highest recognition of scientific accomplishment given by the Basic Science Division. in recognition of outstanding achievement in basic science of an area that results in a significant impact to the field of ceramics." Keywords: New Jersey Mineralogy. Geology. . Softcover pamphlet. Very Good+ condition. 9 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. Offprint. American Journal of Science, 1934. 6" wide by 9" tall. Original printed wrappers. Vertical crease in center, as if folded for mailing. Text pages are otherwise FINE. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with map and line drawings. This copy is from the library of scientist and author Robert B. Sosman, with his tiny ink stamp. A physical chemist, Robert Browning Sosman received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, at the age of 26. By 1908 he had joined the Geo-Physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Sosman worked at the Geo-Physical Laboratory for 20 years, serving 8 years as Assistant Director. During World War I, his contributions there were instrumental in establishing America's capacity for manufacturing optical glass. In 1928 he left to join the United States Steel Corporation as Assistant Director of Research. Following his retirement from U.S. Steel in 1947, he became visiting professor of Ceramics at Rutgers University. Dr. Sosman was a past president of the American Ceramic Society. In his honor, the Society established The Robert B. Sosman Award, "the highest recognition of scientific accomplishment given by the Basic Science Division. in recognition of outstanding achievement in basic science of an area that results in a significant impact to the field of ceramics." Keywords: New Jersey Mineralogy. Geology. . Offprint. Softcover pamphlet. Very Good condition. pp. 65-70.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Vg, hardback, maroon cloth covers with worn black titles on tarnished spine, ex-Royal Aircraft Establishment Library, contents are clean and unmarked, octavo 98pp. weight 350g. A series of 3 lectures to society members at 20th National Metal congress and exposition, Detroit 1938. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ex-library copy with usual markings, covers have minor wear and sunning, corners and ends of spine lightly bumped, binding tight, x + 388 pages including index, study of the interrelations of the phases of silica, bw figures Size: 6.25 x 9.5.

Condition: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, June 29 (SALE item)* 129 pp., original paper wrappers (softcover), library markings, else good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. NOT a library discard (illustrator). Revised edition. Columbus, Ohio: Geological Survey of Ohio, 1946. Very Good condition. Pages are age toned, but clean and unmarked. Fourth Series, Information Circular, No. 1 (Revised Edition). This is from the library of, and bears the tiny ink stamp of Robert B. Sosman. A geophysicist and physical chemist, Robert Browning Sosman authored THE PHASES OF SILICA (1965, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press). Sosman received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, at the age of 26. By 1908 he had joined the Geo-Physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Sosman worked at the Geo-Physical Laboratory for 20 years, serving 8 years as Assistant Director. During World War I, his contributions were instrumental in establishing America's capacity for manufacturing optical glass. In 1928 he left to join the United States Steel Corporation as Assistant Director of Research. Following his retirement from U.S. Steel in 1947, he became visiting professor of Ceramics at Rutgers University. Dr. Sosman was a past president of the American Ceramic Society. In his honor, the Society established The Robert B. Sosman Award, "the highest recognition of scientific accomplishment given by the Basic Science Division. in recognition of outstanding achievement in basic science of an area that results in a significant impact to the field of ceramics.". Revised edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 33pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.