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Stalin's American power
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Gordon D. Friedlander letter to Bern Dibner, with essay
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Letter written by Gordon D. Friedlander to Bern Dibner, plus accompanying essay. The one-page typed letter requests that Dibner review an enclosed essay on André-Marie Ampère for publication in the IEEE Spectrum. The enclosure is a copy of a 22-page typescript that has been corrected; the typescript includes illustrations and reproductions of handwritten letters.
mssHM 83024-83025
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The Lyman Wight colony in Texas, 1846-1858
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Typescript of a history of the Texas Wightites compiled by Heman Hale Smith (1887-1962). The essay traces the origins and development of Wight's Mormon community in Texas from its founding in 1846 through Wight's death in 1858. The essay draws on a variety of secondary sources and also includes transcripts of original correspondence. With bibliography.
mssHM 27981
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Reminiscences of early electrical development: speech
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This talk was given at the First Joint Meeting of the Utah Society of Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers. The typescript also includes an introduction by fellow electrical engineer Paul P. Ashworth and 12 pages of illustrations (all electrical related). Accompanying the typescript is a photograph of the Olmsted Station Power House in Provo, Utah.
mssHM 79875
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Weitere Untersuchungen die Electrolyse des Wassers betreffend: page proofs of essay
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Page proofs of essay by Hermann von Helmholtz originally written in 1887; the essay discusses the topic of the electrolysis of water that he had initially explored in his 1883 essay, On the Thermodynamics of Chemical Processes. The typescript is in German, with corrections and emendations by the author in German and marginal annotations by an unidentified person in English. One annotation in English is signed by an unidentified editor at the publisher, Taylor & Francis.
mssHM 83096
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George W. Buswell papers
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Fair copies of Buswell's war diaries created probably in the 1870s or 1880s, his military document (orders, muster-in and muster-out rolls, his oath of office, and a certificate of payment).
mssHM 46330-46335
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Wärmelehre: autograph notebook
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These notes, which are in German, were written by Loránd Eötvös most probably while he was attending the University of Heidelberg. In the notebook Eötvös includes notes regarding: heat; themodynamics; comparisons of water, alcohol and mercury thermometers; linear expansion of glass and various metals from 0 to 100 degrees Celsius; and the thermal expansion of solids and gases. It is illustrated with pen-and-ink sketches of laboratory apparatus and a few diagrams. The text of the last page breaks off in the middle of a sentence suggesting that Eötvös continued his notes in another notebook.
mssHM 71157