William J. Hammer Collection ca. 1874-1935, 1955-1957 #069

(38 cubic ft.; 102 DB; 5 F/O)

by:  Robert S. Harding, 1986

CONTAINER LIST

   
Series 3: REFERENCE MATERIALS, 1873-1988

42   EXPOSITIONS
  1 -Official Catalogue, Crystal Palace International Electrical Exhibition, 1881-1882
    -Official Catalogue, International Electrical and Gas Exhibition, 1882-1883
  2 -Report on the Exhibits at the Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition, 1882 by Ensign Frank J. Sprague of the United States Navy
    -Official Catalogue and Guide, Electrical Exhibition, 1892.
    -News clippings on the Crystal Palace Exhibits from the Daily Chronicle,, February, 1882; Daily News, February,1882; Christian World, March, 1882; and the London Times, September, 1888
  3 -Illustration: Edison at the International Electrical Exhibition Philadelphia, Pa.
    -Paper concerning the Franklin Institute Exhibition of 1884 official Catalogue, Electrical Exhibition,Philadelphia,1884: "Alfred F. Moore, Manufacturer of Insulated Electric Wire for Telegraph, Telephone, Electric Light "
    -"A Nocturnal Fairyland," The Commercial Gazette, June 10,1884
    -"General Report of the Chairman of the Committee on Exhibitions:" the Franklin Institute, 1885
  4 -Official Guide of the Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States, Cincinnati, Ohio, published by John F.C. Mullen, 1888
    -Illustrations from the Centennial Exposition of Cincinnati
  5 American Telephone and Telegraph Co., The Radiophone, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904
  6 Columbia Exhibition: Penn. RR Exhibit, 1893

43   WORLD EXPOSITIONS
  1 Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, 1873
  2 Electric lighting pamphlet, with instructions for the proper inspection of equipment, 1882
  3 Transactions of the International Electrical Congress, St Louis, 1904 vol. 1
    Proceedings of the International Electrical Congress, Chicago, 1893.
  4 Electric Power, contributors for 1895
  5 The National Electrical Code by Pierce and Richardson, 1896
  6 Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, May 1903
  7 Universal Exposition St. Louis, 1904, Rules and Regulations Governing the System of Awards
  8 Transactions of the New York Electrical Society, *The Effect of the Telephone on Modern Industrial and Social Life" by Herbert N. Casson, 1910
  9 Clippings:
    -"Electricity as an Entertainer" Electrical Review, May 30, 1891
    -"The American Institute of Electrical Engineers,"Electrical Age, June 1891
    -"The Ries Regulating Lamp Sockets" by Hammer, The Electrical Engineer, 1892
    -List of the domestic and foreign jurors in the electricity section of the International Jury of Awards of the Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 1904
    -Ryan, Walter D'Arcy, "Illumination of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition," Feb. 1916

44   WORLD EXPOSITIONS (PARIS EXPOSITION)
  1 Official catalog, Exposition Internationale d'Electricite,Paris, 1881
  2 Report on the incandescent lamps exhibited at the International Exposition of Electricity, Paris, 1881
  3 International Exposition of Electricity, Paris, 1881:Report of the Subcommission on Incandescent Lamps
  4 The Joblochkoff Electric Light at the Paris Electrical Exhibition - Reprint from "Engineering"
  5 Incandescent Electric Lights with Particular Reference to the Edison Lamps at the Paris Exhibition
  6 Various articles from New York World, 1889; New York Herald, 1889; and Electrical World on Edison's exhibit at the Paris Exposition
  7 "Universal Exposition of 1889 at Paris" Translation of the General Classification published by the U.S. Commission.
  8 Exposition 1900, "Congress International des Tramways"
  9 "Paris and its Exhibition" Guide written in English by the Pall Mall Gazette, London
  10 General Catalog of "Exposition Universelle Internationale," Paris 1900
  11 Hering, Carl, "The Paris Exposition of 1901
  12 L'Electricite a L'Exposition de 1900
  13 "Congres International D'Electricite," Paris, Aug. 18-25,1900
95   Paris Exposition: exhibition album, 1889
91   Revue de L'Exposition Universelle de 1889 (in French)

45   INCANDESCENT LIGHTING MATERIAL
  1 Identified Articles:
    -"The Relation between the initial and average efficiency of Incandescent Electric Lamps" by William H. Preece - given before AEEE, 1889
    -"New Incandescent Lamps" by J. Swinburne, The Illuminating Engineer, Feb. 1907
    -"Manufacture of Incandescent Lamps" by George Loring, The National Electrical Contractor
    -"A Life and Efficiency Test of Incandescent Lamps" by Professor B. F. Thomas
    -Standard specification for the purchase of carbon filament incandescent lamps - Department of Commerce and Labor, may 1, 1907
    -Index to Arpad von Barber's Collection of Incandescent lamps, sockets, and switches, 1884-1892
    -"The manufacture of Incandescent Mazda Lamps" by James D. Mall, Electrical Engineering, 1941
    -Appareils Nouveaux," Central Society of Chemical Products, July 1902
  2-6 Articles and clippings (from Electric World, Electrical Review, and the Electrical World and Engineer among others)
  7 Advertisements (including among others: The Sterling Electrical Mfg. Co., Warren Ohio; Bernstein Electric Mfg. Co.; Consolidated Electric Lamp Co.; Tipless Lamp Co., Hudson Street, N.Y.
  8 Tungsten 1amps (including articles from New York Times, Western Electrician, The Electrical Engineer)
  9 Tantalum amps
  10 The Invention and Development of the Incandescent Electric Light by Albert E. Fay, Thesis for the degree of Master of Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Jan. 1, 1900
  11 Articles on Betty Lamp
  12 Nernst Lamp Material
  13 Misc. Manuscripts
46 1 -Burgess, G. K., and P. D. Foote, "The Emissivity of Metals and oxides, 1: Nickel oxide (Nio) in the Range 600 to 1300 degrees C.," Department of Commerce, Scientific Papers of Bureau of Standards, no. 224, April 15, 14. (Reprinted from Bulletin of Bureau of Standards, vol. 11)
    ______. "The Emissivity of Metals and Oxides, 11: Measurements with the Micropyometer," Department of Commerce, Scientific Papers of the Bureau of Standards, no. 242, October 24, 1914. (Reprinted from Bulletin o Bureau of Standards, vol. 11)
    -"GE Mazda Compensator and Low Volt Incandescent Lamps," General Electric Co., July 1910
    -Foote, Paul D. -The Emissivity of Metals and oxides, 111: The Total Emissivity of Platinum and the Relationship Between Total Emissivity and Resistivity," Department of Commerce, Scientific Papers of the Bureau of Standards, no. 243, January 30, 1915 Reprinted from Bulletin of Bureau of Standards, vol. 11)
    -Middlekauff, G. W., B. Maulligan, & i.F. Skogland, "Life Testing of Incandescent Lamps at the Bureau of Standards," Dept of Commerce, Scientific Papers of the Bureau of Standards, no. 265, March 16, 1916
    -Hyde, Edward P. Dept. of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Standards, On the Theory of the Matthews and the Russell Leonard Photometers for the Measurement of Mean Spherical and Mean Hemispherical Intensities, 1905 (Reprints from Bulletin No. 2, Bureau of Standards)
    ______. A Comparison of the Unit of Luminous intensity of the United States with those of Germany, England, and France, Dept. of Commerce and Labor Reprint No. 50, January 15, 1907. (From Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards, vol 3, no. 1, 1907.)
    -Hyde, Edward P., and H.B. Brooks, An Efficiency Meter for Electric Incandescent Lamps, Dept. of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Standards, Reprint No. 30 (from Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards, vol. 2, no. 1. 1906)
    -Hyde, Edward P. and Francis E. Cady, On the Determination of the Mean Horizontal Intensity of Incandescent Lamps by Rotating Lamps Method, Dept. of Commerce a@n Labor, Reprint No. 43, 1907. (from Bulletin of Bureau of Standards, vol. 2, no. 3)
    ______. On the Determination of the Mean Horizontal Intensity of Incandescent Lamps, Dept. of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Standards, Reprint No. 60 1907, (From Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards, vol. 3, no. 3)
    ______. A Comparative Studv of Plain and Frosted Lamps, Dept. of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Standards, Reprint No. 72, 1907. (From Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards, vol. 4, no. 1)
  3 Pamphlets: A - D
    -American Electrician, Portraits of Founders of Electrical Science
    -"An Efficiency Meter for Electric Incandescent Lamps" Department of Commerce & Labor 1906
    -Baker & Co., Inc., Platinum
    -Burrows, Robert P., "Small Incandescent Lamps and Special Illumination Problems," Sept 20-23, 1915
    -Candy, F.E. and Luckiesh, M. "Artifical Daylight-Its Production and Use" Sept 21-24, 1914
    -Candy, F.E. et al Report of the Committee on Progress 1916-17
    -Darrah, W.A., Some Theoretical Considerations of Light Production Dept. 2-165, 1913
    -Die eleftrifche Beleuchtunq 1901
  4 Pamphlets: E to H
    -The Economist, "The Nernst Lamp"
    -The Electrician, "Dynamo Electric Exploders," August 12,1882
    -Ely, Robert B., Church Lighting
    -Fisher Jr., B.F., "improvements in the Manufacture of Incandescent Lamps"
    -Gale, Horace B. "Experiments on the Efficiency of Incandescent Electric Lamps," Van Nostrand's Engineer magazine, July 1884
    -Harrison, Ward, and Evans J. Edwards, "Some Studies in Accuracy of Photometry,' a paper read at the 7th annual convention of the Illuminating Engineering Society, Pittsburgh, Pa.
    -Hammer, Notes on the Historical Development of the Incandescent Lamp
    -Hartman, L. W., "The Conduction Losses from Carbon Filaments when Heated to Incandescence in Various Gases'
    -_____. "The Heat Losses Fran Incandescent Filaments in Air"
    -Hedges, Willingworth W., Central-Station Electric Lighting, London, 1887
    -W. Heffer and Sons Ltd., Catalogue of Books and Journals Bearing on Mathematics, Physics, Engineering and Chemistry, Cambridge, England,1934
    -Hering, Carl, The Most Economical Age of Incandescent Lamps, New York, 1893
    -Hoadley, Geo. A., "Monograph on Illumination," San Franciso, 1920
    -Howell, John W., The Incandescent Lamp of Today, New York and Chicago, 1902
    -_____. Metal Filament Lamps, New York, 1910
    -Hyde, Edward P. "An Explanation of the Short Life of Frosted Lamps," Electrical Review, April 6, 1907
  5 Pamphlets: H - L
    -"Grimston's New Gas-Burner." Reprint from the Journal of Gas Lighting, & C., Sept. 5, 1882
    -Kingsburg, Edwin F., Experiments in the Illumination of a Sunday - School Room with Gas, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1913
    -Jamieson, Andrew, "Tests of Incandescent Lamps for Fall of Resistance with Increase of Electro-motive Force and Ratio of Candle-power to Work Done on Lamp," April 13, 1882
    -LIGHT, Feb. 1927
    -Illuminating Engineering Society Light: Its Use and Misuse, New York, 1912
    -Illuminating Engineering Society, Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society, Easton, Pa., June 1917
    -"Incandescent Lamps" by Wilcox, April 1900
    -"Lampes a Incandescence Nernst," a card from Paris Expo, September 3, 1900
    -"Transaction of Illuminating Engineering Society" (loose pages)
    -Lieb, John W. "Leonardo Da Vinci, Engineer and Artist",Stevens Indicator, Vol. 31, no. 2, April 1914.
    -_____.The History of the Incandescent Electric Lamp, New Jersey, 1919
  6 Pamphlets: M-W
    -Moore Electrical Co., "Tests and comparisons of the Moore Electric Light" extracts from the Illuminating Engineer for June and July 1906
    -MacKay, G.M. The Characteristics of Gas-Filled Lamps, Sept. 1914
    -National Electric Light Association, Cleveland Ohio, Data Booklet on Carbon, Gem, Tantahim and Tungsten
    -Nostrand, D. Van., Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine, January 1882
    -Page, A.D. Incandescent Lamps: Their Use and Abuse GE Co., July 1894
    -Preece, W.H., "Recent Wonders of Electricity" Journal of the Society of Arts, Jan. 13, 1882
    -The Pennsylvania State College Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 1, June 1, 1910
    -The Franklin Institute, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. CL., No. 4, October-1900
    -Randal, J.E., "Recent Developments in the Manufacture of Incandescent Lamps," Chicago, Sept. 1911
    -Revue: The Magazine of Light, Vol. 1, No. 6, Sept. 1929; and Vol. 1, No. 8, Jan. l930
    -Servir, Edourd, Lampe Clamond, Paris 1882
    -Sharp, Clayton H.,, New Types of Incandescent Lamps, N.Y., 1906
    -Schroeder, Henry, History of Incandescent Lamp Manufacture, N.Y., 1911
    -The Incandescent Lamp-Its History, 1923
    -Schroeder, Henry, Electric Bulbs for Automobiles, N.Y., 1906
    -Sharp, Clayton H. "The Photometry of Gas Filled Incandescent Lamps," Nov. 1914
    -Ultra - Violet Ray Sterilization Co., The Perfect Sterilization of Water, Philadelphia, Pa.
    -Weaver, W.D. Incandescent Lamp Economy, 1885
    -Woodbury, C.J.H., Recent Developments in the Electrical Transmission of Power, Boston, Mass., 1893
    -Serrel, Lemuel Wm. "The Handling of Freight by Electric Roads," The Electrical Age., Nov. 1904
    -Westinghouse Madza Lamps, Better Light for Efficient Work
    Woodbury, C.J.H., Electrical Transmission of Power for Cotton Mills, 1892
47 1 Includes clippings of Scientific America, the Daily News, the Morning Advertiser, the New York-Times, the Electrician, Boston Record, Harpers Weekly, New York Herald, the New York Sun, the New York World, the New York Tribune, Mount Pleasant Monthly, and the Daily Graphic
  2 Pages of Scientific American Supplement, No. 162, February 8, 1879; No. 283, June 4, 1881

48   ELECTRICITY: LAMPS: DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS
  1 Articles concerning electric lamps and their inventors
  2 Articles concerning electric lamps
  3 Scrapbook on incandescent lamps
  4 New York Herald, December 21, 1879: articles describing Edison lamps and lighting system
  5 Electricity: commercial applications
  6 Phamphlets:
    -"Incandescent Lamps for Isolated Plants," General Electric Company, October 23, 1901
    -"Das Edison Licht," Berlin, 1882
    -"Elektriche Beleuchtung von Theatern," Berlin, 1884
  7 Illustrated catalogue of "Electric Light and Power Supply," the Electric Supply Co., Chicago, March 1892
  8 National Electric Light Association materials

49   STORAGE BATTERIES, ELECTRICAL DEVICES: NEWS CLIPPINGS
  1 Scrapbook of various articles on the electric storage battery
  2 Scrapbook of clippings from Scientific American (1879-1882)
  3 Scrapbook of clippings from Scientific American (1880-1882)
  4 Storage and secondary batteries
  5 Electrical devices

50   TELEPHONY: NEWS CLIPPINGS
  1 Telephony
  2 Scrapbook of various newspaper & magazine clippings on the telephone (1879-1884)
  3 General electricity
  4 Alternating currents and high frequencies

51   DOMESTIC APPLICATIONS OF ELECTRICITY: EARLY HOME, APPLIANCES
  1 -Baker, Ray Stannard, "New Music for an old World," McClures Magazine, July 1906
    -Bell Laboratories, Synchronized Reproduction of Sound and Scene, November 1928
    -Chapman, Harold, "The Wireless Electrical City of the Future," New York Daily Tribune, Dec. 12, 1909
    -Electrocraft, "Heating by Incandescent Lamps"
    -Hillman, H.W., "An Electric Day," Good Housekeeping, June 1906
    -Lees, Frederic, "An Electric Villa," Sept. 1907
    -The Steward, "An Electric Villa," Sept. 1907
    -Leonard, H. Ward, "A New System of Electric Propulsion,"Electricity, July 20, 1892
    -McGraw - Hill Co., Inc., The Home Electrical.
    -Popular Mechanics, "Submarine Mines, Sept. 1908
    -Scientific American, "Edison's Concrete Furniture,"January 13, 1912
    -Taylor, John Bellamy, "Microscopic Study,of the Phonograph," Scientific American Nov. 13, 1915
    -The New York Edison Company, List of Electrical Appliances and Applications
    -The Philadelphia Electric Company, National Home Electric July 6, 1926
    -Richards, Joseph W. "History of the Electric Furnace"
    -Sterling Debenture Corporation, The American Telegraphone Company
    -Victor Talking Machine Co., The New Orthophonic Victrolas Electrolas and Radiola Combinations
  2 Advertisements
  3 Early home appliances
  4 Articles on farm life (1908-1910)
  5 Television and motion pictures
  6 Phonographs, telegraphones, graphophones

52   ELECTRIC RAILWAYS
    -United States Circuit Court, Western District of Michigan: Benson Bidwell, Clara E. Bidwell, Charles F. Bidwell vs. Consolidated Street Railway Co., includes Hammer's Testimony
    -N.J. Supreme Court: Alexander F. Bliss Vs. Bergen County Traction Company brief for the defendant
    -Full text of case of Thomson Houston Electric Company vs.Union Railway Company and Walker Company - filed in U.S. circuit Court, Feb. 12, 1898
    -Copy of the deposition of court case, Hammer cross examined by Mr. Davis, September 1, 1898
    -Re-cross-examination of Hammer continued by Davis
    -New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals, Alexander F. Bliss vs. The Bergen County Traction Company
    -U.S. Circuit Court, Eastern Division, Eastern District of Missouri: Adams Electric Railway Co., Vs Lindell Railway Co., brief for defendants
    -Full text of injunctions granted by the Courts against the various companies sued for infringement
    -Circuit Court of the United States, Western District of Michigan, Southern Division, Benson Bidwell, Clara E. Bidwell and Charles F. Bidwell (complainants) vs. Consolidated Street Railway Company (Defendant) on Bidwell Patent No. 318,594. Defendant's record on final hearing
    -U.S. Circuit Court, Eastern Division of Eastern Missouri, Adams Electric Railway Co. vs. The Lindell Railway Co. Brief for Defendants
    -U.S. Circuit Court, Eastern Division of the Eastern District of Missouri, Adams Electric Railway Co. vs. The Lindell Railway Co. Argument of Frederic H. Betts for Defendant on Final Hearing
    -N.J. Court of Errors and Appeals Andrew F. Bliss vs.Bergen County Traction Co. Points for Defendant in Error
    -N.J. Court of Errors and Appeals. Alexander F. Bliss vs.the Bergen County Transaction Co. Statement of Facts
    -N.J. Court of Errors and Appeals. The Bergen Traction Co. vs. Andrew Bliss. Points and Brief for Plaintiff in Error
    -New Jersey Supreme, Alexander F. Bliss vs. the Bergen County Traction Co. Statement of Facts
    -N.J. Court of Errors and Appeals, Bergen County Traction Co. vs. Alexander Bliss. State of the Case
    -N.J. Supreme Court, Alexander F. Bliss vs. Bergen County Traction Co. State of the Case
    -Suspended Switch Case (Circuit Court), Full Text of Decision in the case of Thomson Houston Electric Co. vs. Elmira and Horsehead Railway Co., June 19, 1895
    -Suspended Switch Case. (Circuit Court of Appeals) Full Text of decision in the case of Thomson-Houston Electric Co. vs. Elmira and Horseheads Railway Co., June 19, 1895
    -Articles
53 1-2 -Various pamphlets on European electric railways
  3 -La Trazione Elettrica Sulle Linee Vallellinesi, diagrams, pamphlets, and photographs
    -Paper, "Electric railroads' investigated by Hammer in Europe

54   ELECTRIC SIGNS
    Identified Articles:
  1 -Advertisements from Betts and Betts, 1911
    -Anderson, O.P. "Brief Outline f Electric Sign History and Development," Signs of the Times, May 1916
    -"BOLOSSY Diralfy's Mammouth Historical Presentation," El Dorado on the Palisades 1891, brochure promoting Amusement Park
    -Engineering Department, National Lamp Works, "Engineering Features of Electric Sign Lighting, with Bulletin," March 15, 1916
    -Estimate for isolated electric light plant from the Thomas Houston Electric Co.
    -Ford, Arthur H. "The Design of Illuminated Signs," 1914
    -General Electric Company, "Edison Mazda Sign Lamps,"January 1913
    -Good Lighting, "The New Era in Lighting Fixtures," May 1912
  2 -Illuminating Engineering Society, "Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society," Aug. 30, 1920
    -Mills, E.A., "The Development of Electric Sign Lighting," Illuminating Engineer Society, August 1920
    -Mills, E.A. "The Development of Electric Sign Lighting,"paper read before the Illuminating Engineering Society August 30, 1920
    -Patent Specification of F. Alcock, Advertising service,1900
    -Shute, J.M., "The Lighting of Signs and Billboards," Lighting Data, November 1921
    -The New York Edison Co., Electric Sign
    -The New York Edison Co., Profitable Advertising, June 1902
    -The New York Edison Co., The Edison Monthly, May 1921
    -The Electric Motor and Equipment Co., Decorative Devices and Signs of the Times, May 1901
    -Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society Aug. 1920
    -Williams, Arthur, "A report made at the twenty-sixth Annual Convention of the National Electric Light Association," May 1903
  3 -Advertising brochures and pamphlets of various companies
  4 -Miscellaneous notes; articles and illustrations
  5 -Various articles from Electrical Review, Western Electrician, and Electrical World
  6 -News Clippings from N.Y Daily Tribune; N.Y. Times; N.Y.Herald, The Evening Mail

55   BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY
  1 Portraits
  2 Biographical materials
  3 Lists of autographed photographs of "Eminent Electrical Men"
  4 Material regarding Nobel Prize
  5 Correspondence, 1919
  6 Miscellaneous: news clippings, diagrams, Band of T.A. Edison's straw hat

56   POULSEN: TELEGRAMAPHONE
  1 Identified Articles:
    -Electrical Review, "The Poulsen Telegraphone in America"
    -Fyfe, Herbert C., "The Telegramaphone and the British Post Office," Scientific American, April 25, 1903
    -L'Electricien, "Revue Internationale de L'Electricite,"August 16, 1900
    -Lieb, John A., "The Telegraphone: A Magnetic Phonograph," Electrical Review, Sept. 1902
    -Lieb, Chas. A., The Poulsen Telegraphone, Brochure on Poulsen apparatus, steel bands and steel wires
    -O'Reilly, H.P. Invitations to attend a demonstration of the Poulsen telegraphone
    -Poulsen's patent specifications for method of recording and reproducing sound or signals, November 13, 1900
    -Prometheus, Berlin, Germany, October 29, 1900
    -Revue Des Sciences, "La Nature Gaston Tissandier," June 23, 1900
    -The American Telegraphone Co., "The Poulsen Telegraphone"
    -The Literary Digest Advertiser, 'Poulsen's Telegraphone: A Scientific Marvel," Feb. 9, 1907
    -The Press of Philadelphia, "Poulsen, The Danish Edison," Feb. 9, 1907
    -The World, "Love Letters in Steel: The Wonderful New Telegraphone which Registers Speech on Indestructible Discs of Metal prepared for Mailing," Sunday May 31,1903
    -The Shorthand Writer, "The Telegraphone," Oct. 4, 1906
    -Waterman's, "Report on the Poulsen Telegraphonel
   2 -Telegraphones and telegramaphones
   3 -Advertisements (stocks)
   4 -Engle, Friedrich Karl, "1888-1988: A Hundred Years of Magnetic Sound Recording, " J. Audio Eng. Society. Vol. 36, No. 3, March, 1988: 170-178.
    -Faraday Centennial Number
    Gandy, James W., "Bridgeton, the Birthplace of Magnetic Recording." South Jersey Magazine. Summer, 1989: 8 & 9 & 12.
    Oberlin Smith notes on talking phongraphs, Sept. 23, 1878 (copies).

57   PHOSPHORESCENCE
  1 Identified Articles:
    -Andrade, E.N., "Lenard's Researches on Phosphorescence,"Scientific American Supplement, September 20, 1913
    -Andrews, W.S., "The Production of Fluorescence and Phosphorescence by Radiations from the Carbon Arc Lamp," General Electric Review, Sept.1925
    -Baly, C.C., Photosyntnesis, 1929
    -Baskerville, Charles, "Ultra-violet Light in the Laboratory and in Practice"
    -Butman, Chester A., "The Electron Theory of Phosphorescence," Physical Review, Feb. 1913
    -"Catalog of Scientific Papers" compiled by the Royal Society of London
    -Compton, Arthur, "What is Light?" The Scientific Monthly, April 1929
    -DuBois, Raphael, Physiological Light, 1896
    -Hogben, Lancelot, "Animal Light and Animal Colour," Discovery, Nov. 1924
    -Hammer, "Phosphorescent Mixtures"
    -Harwood, W.S., "Studies in Marine Biology"
    -McDowell, Louise Sherwood, "The Fluorescence and Absorption of Anthracene," Physical Review, Feb. 1908
    -Nichols, Edward L., "Fluorescence and Phosphorescence,"Franklin Institute, March 29, 1906
    -"Phosporescent Calcium Tungstate" formulas of W.S. Andrew and Thomas Edison
    -Pierce, C.A., "Studies in Thermo-luminescence," Physical Review, Jan 1911
    -Rayleigh, Lord, "The Glow of Phosphorus," Scientific Monthly
    -Waggoner, Chan. W., "Some Studies in Short Duration Phosphorescence," Short Duration Phosphorence
  2 -Studies in Luminescence from Physical Review Magazine
    -Nichols, Edward L., "Studies of Luminescence," Physical Review, October 1905
  3 Phosphorescence Unpublished Materials (Correspondence)
  4 -Chemiluminescence
    -Simonini, Angelo, "Notes on Chemical Luminescence of Rare Earths," Illustrated Engineers, October 1909
    -Waggoner, C.W., "Some Phosphorescent Salts of Cadmium with Sodium," Physical Review, Oct. 1910
  5 -"The Production of Light by Animals"
    -Coblentz, W.W., "The Colour of the Light emitted by Lampyride," The Canadian Entomologist
    -Dahlgren, Uric, "The Production of Light by Animals," Franklin Institute Journal, May 1917
    -McDermott, F. Alex, Recent Advances in our Knowledge of the Production of Light in Living Organisms, 1911
    -McDermott,, F. Alex,, The Stability of the Photogenic Material of the Lampyridae and its Probable Chemical Nature, November 1911
    -McDermott, F. Alex, Why Do Certain Living Forms Produce Light? December 1911
  6 -Phosphorescent Lights
  7 -Cold Light
    -Bancroft, Wilder D., "The Theory of Cold Light,"Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society, June 10, 1915
    -DuBois, Raphael, "The Mystery of Cold Light," Scientific American Monthly, Jan. 1920
    -Harvey, E. Newton, Cold Light 1926
    -The Light of the Firefly

58   RADIUM
    Le Radium 34 copies of the magazine, 1904-1907:
  1 -Jan. 1904-Dec. 1904
  2 -Feb. 1905-Dec. 1905
  3 -Jan. 1906-Nov. 1906
  4 -Jan. 1907-March 1907
59   News clippings, 1903-1904:

Includes clippings from The New York Press, The Electrical World, Modern Medical Science, The New York Herald, The New-York American, The New York World, North American, New York Tribune, Times, Boston Post, The Illustrated London News, Harpers Weekly, New York Sun

  1 1903
  2-3 1903 - 1904
  4 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (News Special), Sunday, August 30, 1903
60   News clippings, 1903 - 1904:

Includes clippings from Electrical Review, Tribune Weekly Review, New York America, New York Times, New York Press, New York Evening Journal, Illustrated London News, Electrical Review, New-York Evening Sun, Times, New York Press

  1 1903
  2 1903-1904
61 1-3 1903-1904
62 1-2 1903-1904
63 1 -The Western miner and Financier, (Radium Edition), vol.10, no. 11, March 17, 1904
    -Moffett, Cleveland, "The Sense and the Nonsense about Radium." Success, vol. 7, April 1904
    -V.V.V., "A Few Days Ago: A Radium Chronicle," The Sphere, March 5, 1910
  2 News clippings, 1904
  3 Loose clippings 1903-1906; undated clippings; clippings,1912, 1920, 1921, 1923
  4 News and periodical clippings:
    -Jan. 1902
    -Oct. 1903
    -Nov. 1903
    -Dec. 1903
    -Jan. 1904
    -Feb. 1904
    -March 1904
    -June 1904
    -Nov. 1904
    -Dec. 1904
  5 Pamphlets:
    -"The Curative Action of Radium" by Dr. Sigm. Saubermann, 1914
    -"Radio - Activity of Uranium" by Sir William Crookes, London 1900
    -"Radium, Radioactive Substances and Aluninum with Experimental Research of the Same" by Myron Metzenbaum,1904
    -"Illustrating the Penetrating Power of Radium" by Robert Abbe
    -"Le Radium, La Radioactivite" et les sciences qui s'y rattachent," March 1904
    -"Le Radium, La Radioactivite et les Radiations," May 1905
64   English Language, Bound Pamphlets, 1899 - 1924
  1 1899 - 1902:
    -Owens, E.E., "Thorium Radiation," from the Philosophical Magazine, Oct., 1899.
    -Crookes, Sir William, Radio - Activity of Uranium, London,1900
    -Bolton, Henry Carrington, "An Experimental Study of Radio Active Substances," from the Smithsonian Report for 1899, Washington, 1901
    -Kroptkin, Prince, "Unsuspected Radiations," from the Smithsonian Report for 1900, Washington, 1901
    -Rutherford F., and H.T. Brookii, "The New Gas from Radium,"from The Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada ,2nd series 1901-1902, vol. 7, section 3, 1901
    -Hammer, Edison's Tungstate of Calcium Lamp. The Nernst Lamp. Radium, Polonium and Actinium, New York and Chicago, Jan. 3, 1902
    -Crookes, Sir Williams, "Radio - Activity and the Electron Theory," from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. 69, Feb. 1902
    -Crookes, Sir William and Prof. H. Becquerel, "Sur La Radio-Activite-de la Matiere," Royal Institute of Great Britain, March 2, 1902
    -Rutherford E., and H.T. Brooks, "Comparison of the Radioactive Substances," the Philosophical Magazine, July 1902
    -Rutherford E., and F. Soddy, "The Cause and Nature of Radioactivity," Part II, from the Philosophical Magazine, Nov. 1902
2   1903:
    -Rutherford E., "Excited Radioactivity and the Method of Its Transmission," the Philosophical Magazine, Jan.1903
    -Rutherford E., "The Magnetic and Electric Deviation of the Easily Absorbed Rays from Radium," Philosophical Magazine, Feb. 1903
    -Hammer, Radium and other Radioactive Substances with a Consideration of Phosphorescent and Fluorescent Substances. The Properties and Applications-of Selenium and the Treatment of Disease by the Ultra Violet Light, New York, April 17,1903
    -Barker, George F., "Radio-Activity and Chemistry",, the School of Mines Quarterly, vol.24, no. 3, April 1903 (three copies)
    -Scott, Charles F. et. al., Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, vol.20, no. 5, May 1903
    -Crookes, Sir William, Modern Views on Matter: The Realization of a Dream, London, June 5, 1903 Crookes, Sir William , "The Ultra-Violet Spectrum of Radium," from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. 72, August 1503
    -Becquerel, Henri, "On the Radio-Activity of Matter," from The Smithsonian Report for 1902, Washington, 1903
    -McLennan, J.C., and E.F. Burton, On the Radio-activity of Metals, University of Toronto Studies, Physical Sciences, no. 3, 1903
    -Hammer & Hess, IL Radio: Le Sue Proprieta ed Applicazioni, 1903
  3 1904-1905
    -Cleaves, Margaret A. 'The Physiological Action of Light and the Physical Factors in Phototherapy," Reprinted from The Journal of Advanced Therapentics, Feb. 1904
    -Abbe, Robert, Radium and Radioactivity, March 1904
    -Phillips, Alexander, Radium in American ore, April 1904
    -Metzenbaum, Myron, "Radium, -Radioactive Substances and Aluminium", reprint from The Cleveland Medical Journal, May 1904
    -Abbe, Robert, "The Subtle Power of Radium," Reprint from The Medical Record, New York, August 27, 1904
    -Bottone, S., Radium, and All About It, London, 1904
    -Crookes, Sir William, "Modern Views on Matter: the Realization of a Dream." From the Smithsonian Report for 1903, Washington, 1904
    -Hall-Edwards, J., (ed.), Archives of the Roentgen Ray: and Allied Phenomena, vol. 8, no. 10, March 1904
    -Ramsay, Sir William, and Frederick Soddy, "Experiments in Radio - Activity and the Production of Helium From Radium," from the Smithsonian Report for 1903, Washington, 1904
    -McLennan, J.F., on the Radioactivity of Mineral oils and Natural Gases, 1904
    -Renterdahl, David, The Radioactive Atom, Providence, 1904
    -Thomson, J.J., "Radium," from the Smithsonian Report for 1903, Washington, 1904
    -Dawes, H. F., "On the Secondary Radiation Excited in Different Metals by the Y Rays from Radium," reprinted from the Physical Review, vol. 20, no. 3, March 1905
    -Johnson, L. , "On the Decay of Excited Radioactivity from Natural Gases," reprinted from the Physical Review, vol. 20. no. 3, March 1905
    -McLennan,,J.C. "Notes on the Use of Sensitive Quadrant Electronmeters," Reprinted from the Physical Review, vol. 20, no. 3, March 1905
    -University of Toronto, "Papers from the Physical Laboratory" by J.C. McLennan, L.B. Johnson, and H.P.Hawes, reprinted from the Physical Review, vol. 20, no.3, March 1903 (Papers are not enclosed)
  4 1906-1909:
    -Dutton, Major C.E., Volcanos and Radioactivity, April 17,1906
    -Abbe, Robert, 'Explosion of a Radium Tube," reprinted from Medical Record, April 21, 1906
    -Sands, Benj W., The Primordial Energy, 1906
    -Curie, Madame, "Modern Theories of Electricity and Matter," from the Smithsonian Report for 1906, no. 1745, Washington, 1907
    -Himstedt, Franz, "Radioactivity," from the Smithsonian Report for 1906, no. 1746, Washington, 1907
    -Joly, John, "Uranium and Geologv," from the Smithsonian Report for 1908, no. 1900, Washington, 1909
    -Broca, Andre, "The Work of Henri Becquerel," From the Smithsonian Report for 1906, no. 1746, Washington, 1907
    -Broca, Andrel, "The Work of Henri Becquerel," from The Smithsonian Report from 1908, no. 1914, Washington, 1909
    -Wilkinson, John Anderson, "Th Phosphorescence of Some Inorganic Salt,' reprinted from the Journal of Physical Chemistry, vol. 13, no. 9, December 1909
    -McLennan, J.C. "On the Electricity Charges Acquired by Insulated Potassium Salt and Radioactive Substances in High Bacua," reprinted from The Physical Review, vol. 29, no. 6, December 1909
  5 1910 -1924:
    -Kennedy, W.T., "On the Active Deposit from Actinium in Uniform Electric Fields," from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 3rd Series, Ottawa, 1910
    -Ives, Herbert E., and William W. Coblentz, "Luminous Efficiency of The Firefly," from Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards, vol. 6, no. 3, Washington, 1910
    -Andrews, W.S., "Notes on Tribo-Luminescence," from the Transactions of the American Electrochemical Society, Vol. 18, Oct. 1910
    -Becquerel, Jean, "Modern Ideas on the Constitution of Matter," from The Smithsonian Report for 1910,Washington, 1917
    -The Society of Arts of the M.I.T., Science Conspectus, Boston, Mass., April 1911
    -Coblentz, William W., The Physical Study of the Firefly, Washington, D.C., 1912
    -Curran, Thomas F.V., Carnotte: The Principal Source of Radium, New York, 1913
    -Rutherford, Sir Ernest, "The Constitution of Matter and the Evolution of the Elements" from The Smithsonian Report for 1915, Washington, 1916
    -Buseck, O., "Radium and Its Physical Properties,"reprinted from The Hahnemannian Monthly, May 1916 -Rutherford, Sir Ernest, The Natural and Artificial Disintegration of the Elements, Franklin Institute, Pa., 1924
    -ATSCO, Inc., The Radium Gold Fibre Screen, New York City, n.d.
65   Papers, Lectures, Clippings. (The material in this box is arranged alphabetically by last names of authors. There is a brief listing of some of the writings in the box)
  1 Materials by authors A - C (See Itemized Listing):
    -Ackroyd, William, Experiments and Cbservations with Radium, 1903
    -Ackroyd, William, Radium and Its Position in Nature,Halifax
    -Allan, S.J., 'Radioactivity From Freshly Fallen Snow, Dec.31, 1902
    -Alphers, O.T.J., Radium and Its Position in Nature, New Zealand
    -Barry, Paul, "Radium and Its Wonderful Qualities,"Electrical Age, Oct., 1902
    -Bohn, J. Lloyd, "Radioactive Properties of Rocks, Soils,Crude Oil and Waters from Southern California,"Franklin Institute Journal, Oct. 1930
    -Brown, F.C., "Evidence Favoring the Radioactive Disintegration of Sodium as an Element," Iowa Academy of Science
    -Cahen, Edwaril, "Modern Extraction in Cornwall"
    -Crawford, Emily "The Curies at Rome: An Interview with the Discoverers of Radium,," The World Today, April 1904
    -Crookers, William, "on Repulsion Resulting from Radiation" Sci. Am. Sup., May 27, 1896
    -Crozer, Laura, "Madame Curie the Woman," Popular Electricity, May 1911
  2 " D
  3 " E-F
  4 " G-H
  5 " K-N
  6 " P-R
  7 " S-T
  8 " W
  9 Typed and hand-written scripts
  10 Miscellaneous
  11 Becquerel, M. Henri "Recherches sur me Propriete Nouvelle De La Matiere"
66   Foreign Language Pamphlets:
    Pamphlets:
  1 -Berget, A., Le Radium et Les Nouvelles Radiations, Paris, 1904
    -Besson, Paul, Le Radium et La Radio-Activite, Paris,, 1904
  2 -Curie, Mme. Sklodowska, Recherches Sur les Substances Radioactives, (Thesis presented to the Faculte des Sciences de Paris, in partial fulfilment for the degree of Docteur es Sciences Physiques), Paris, 1904 (two copies)
    -_________. Radio-Active Substances, Thesis presented to the Faculte des Sciences de Paris (Reprinted from the Chemical News), London, 1904
  3 -Curie, P. *Recherches Recentes Sur La Radioactivite,"Journal de Chimie-Physique, Vol. 1, 1903
    -Electric World, "Death Of Prof. Pierre Curie," April 28,1906
  4 Pamphlets in German:
    -Danne, Jacques, Das Radium, Leipzig, 1904
    -Heydweiller, Adolf, Ueber Gewichtsanderunger bei Chemischer un Physikalischer Umsetzung, Leipzig, 1901
    -Sonderabdruck, Berichte der Dentschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, Berlin, 1903
  5 Hammer & Hess, Il Radio: Le Sue Proprieta ed Applicazioni,Torino, 1903 (two copies)
  6 Curie Radium Pamphlets:
    -Curie, E., Radium et les Nouvelles Radiation, Washington,1904
    -Berget, A. Le Radium (Portraits de M. & ttne. Curie & M.Becquerel), Paris
    -Curie, Mr. & Mrs., New Radio-active substances and the Rays which they Emit, N.Y. 1904
    -Madame Pierre Curie and Professor Curie, author?, date?
    -Societe Centrale de Produits Chemiques, Substances Radio actives & Sels de Radium, Saint-Louis, 1904
    -Becquerel, Henri, Bibliographie, Paris, 1903
  7 Radium in Medicine
    -Pamphlets, Journals, Addresses, Papers

67   SELENIUM
  1 Identified articles #1 - 8
  2 Identified articles #9 - 13
  3 Identified articles #14 - 19, 20 - 25
  4 Identified articles #26 - 28, 30 - 36, 38 & 39, 41-45
  5 George Jackson Book 1 Fritt Cells
  6 General selenium pamphlets and papers
  7 The uses of selenium in radio and television
  8 T.M. Giltay's notes on improved apparatus for demonstration of selenium
  9 Miscellaneous articles
68 1 Elektrophysikalische Rundschau March 1910 - December 1910
  2 Elektrophysikalische Rundschau February 1911 - December 1911
  3 Elektrophysikalische Rundschau October 1912 - June 1912
  4 Selenium cells
  5 Unidentified German materials on selenium
  6 Unidentified German materials on selenium
  7 Selenium photographs

    PATENT MATERIALS
69   U.S. materials
  1-4 Various phonograph patent specifications
  5-6 Miscellaneous patent specification
70 1-2 Miscellaneous Patent Specifications
71   English and French Patents, 1870s-1880s
  1 Adamian - Blamires
  2 Brewer, Edward Griffith
  3 Carbonelle - Hulsmeyer
  4 Jensen, Peter
  5 Johnson - Korn
  6 Lake, William Robert
  7 Langhans - Swan
  8 Thompson, William Phillips
  9 French: Berjonneau - Duchenne
  10 T. R. Harding & Son, Tower Works, Leeds Counter, Speed Indicator, Speedometer
72   Heany materials
  1 Specifications forming parts of patents, complete specifications
  2 Patent litigation

92   SPECIFICATIONS AND DRAWINGS OF DYNAMOS IN GERMAN AND FRENCH

 

73   MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCE MATERIALS
  1 -Miscellaneous notes (alphabetical)
  2 -Bibliography
  3 -General Electric Co. Bulletin 1899-1902
  4 History of the War of wars - notes, draft diary, etc. by P. Henry Mottclay, 1914
  5  
  6  
93   -Report from the Select Committee on Lighting by Electricity, London, June 13, 1879
    -Report from the Select Comittee on Lighting by Electricity, London, 1882
    -Electrical Supplies (handbook edition), compiled and published by the Howland Publishing Co., N.Y., 1915
    -A large folder containing news clippings
    -Misc. Reference materials
    -Address book
    -"Human Radium" newsclipping, SI color oversize neg. #77-4234

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