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Staplebound wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Pgs 1-32. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: French Instruments in the United States by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.…

Staplebound wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Pgs 65-96. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Cathetometers and Precision Measurement: The History of an Upright Ruler by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. Tempest in a Milk Pail: The Lactometer and 19th Century Dairy Disputes by MARJORIE BERRY. The Reflecting Goniometer by STEVEN TURNER. The Zealous Marketing of Rain-Band Spectroscopes by THOMAS F. PETERSON, JR. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.…

Staplebound wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Pgs 33-64. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. Minor scuffing to rear cover. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: The Holyoke Instruments at Harvard by RAYMOND V. GIORDANO. Alvan Clarks' Customers by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. Applying a New Science to a New Industry: The Promise of Spectrum Analysis and the Reality of the Bessemer Process of Making Steel by STEVEN TURNER. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments. …