About this Item
FIRST EDITION. xiii, 380 pp; 21 plates (1 folding) + 2 unnumbered folding plates; text figs. Original cloth. Lightly marked ex-library, else Very Good. 'Most of Wheatstone's published papers are listed in Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers, VI, 343-344, and VIII, 1227-1228. Almost all of them are in The Scientfic Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone (London, 1879), published by the Physical Society of London' (D. S. B. XIV: 290). Includes Wheatstone's first paper, 'New experiments on sound' (Annals of Philosophy 6, 1823, pp. 81-90), as well as 'Description of the kaleidophone, or phonic kaleidoscope: A new philosophical toy, for the illustration of several interesting and amusing acoustical and optical phenomena' (Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and Art 23, 1827, 344-351), 'On the Transmission of Musical Sounds through Solid Linear Conductors, and on Their Subsequent Reciprocation' (Journal of the Royal Institution 2, 1831; pp. 47-63 in this volume), 'An account of some experiments to measure the velocity of electricity and the duration of electric light' (Phil. Trans., Vol. 124, 1834, pp. 583-591), and his 1843 Bakerian Lecture that popularized the 'Wheatstone Bridge' first described by Samuel Hunter Christie (1784-1865), 'An account of several new Instruments and Processes for determining the constants of a Voltaic Circuit' (Phil. Trans., Vol. 133, pp. 303-327). Seller Inventory # 24295
Contact seller
Report this item
