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Catalogue Of The Wheeler Gift Of Books, Pamphlets And Periodicals In The Library Of The American Institute Of Electrical Engineers - Vol II
Catalogue Of The Wheeler Gift Of Books Pamphlets And Periodicals In The Library Of The American Institute Of Electrical Engineers - Vol II Author:Various CONTENTS VOLUME II SECTION PAGE II. Excerpts from Periodicals Miscellanea ... 9 III. Instructions, Rules, and Regulations for Tel- egraph Operation Tariffs Codes . . .227 IV. Reports of Telegraph and Cable Companies . . 243 V. Prospectuses of Telegraph and Cable Companies 258 VI. Reports of Electric Light, Telephone and Manu- facturing Companies... more » 273 VII. Patent Specifications Litigation 287 VIII. Parliamentary Papers Legislation Legal . . 305 IX. Expositions Congresses Societies Banquets, etc 329 X. Trade Catalogues, Circulars and Price Lists . . 347 XI. Periodicals 377 APPENDIX. The Sympathetic Telegraph . . . 409 INDEX TO AUTHORS 421 INDEXTO TELEGRAPHIC ENTRIES 453 REPORT OF A. I. E. E. LIBRARY COMMITTEE, 1903 465 428168 Excerpts SECTION II from Periodicals Miscellanea SECTION II Excerpts from Periodicals Miscellanea 2448. Wallis, John. 1616-1703. Letter to Captain Edmund Halley, concerning the captains map of magnetick variations, and some other things relating to the magnet. Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc., 1702, Vol. 23, pp. 1106-1112. 4to. London, 1704 Gellibrands determination of magnetic declination reasons for believing that the mariners compass was invented by an Englishman. See also 217. 2449. Gray, Stephen. -1736. New electrical experiments. Abstr. Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc., 1719-1733, Vol. 6, pt. 2, pp. 7-27. 4to. London, 1734 Interesting list of bodies with which the experiments were made, p. 37, 2450. A new barometer. Abstr. Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc., 1719-1733, Vol. 6, pt. 2, pp. 28-34. I table. 4to. London, 1734 Application of the barometer to measurement of heights above sea-level. 2451. Magneticks. Abstr. Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc., 1719-1733, Vol. 6, pt. 2, pp. 1-23. 4to. London, 1734 Variation in London, in the Baltic, Hudsons Bay numerous observations with the dipping-needle. 2452. Eames, John. -1744. An account of a book entitled, Traite physique et historique de 1Aurore Boreale, par M. de Mairan. Suite des Memoires de 1Academie Royale des Sciences, annee 1731 or, A philosophical and historical treatise concerning the Aurora Borealis, by Mr. de Mairan, being a supplement to the Memoires of the Academy of Sciences for the year 1731. Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc., Vol. 38, pp. 243-256. 4to. London, 1735 The writer holds that aurorae are due to the extension of the solar atmosphere, remarks on the height of our atmosphere and on the altitude at which aurorae appear. See No. 382.« less