JONES, Thomas P., editor. Journal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1829. Volume 11 (new series), volume 15 overall. 8.5"x5.5", 4301, 12pp.. Bound in half-calf, with gilt stamping and raised bands. Ex-library, with evidence of spine label removal on spine bottom, scuffing on the spine edges, and a few stamps on title page, plus a call slip envelope at the rear pastedown and endpaper--other than some foxing, the book is very tight and crisp, a very nice copy. Good copy. $175.00 Some of the articles in the volume include:
David Brewster, "Selections from Letters on Natural Magic...Illusions of the Eye", pp 138-144 and continued for "Spectral Illusions", pp 210--215 and "deceptions with the Concave Mirror" pp 282-287, and "Acoustic Mechanism--Automata", pp 354-359, and "decomposition of Light by Absorption" pp 417-420.
Robert Hare, "Apparatus for evolving Silicon from Fluo-silic Acid Gas", pp 289-296 (with illustrations of the instruments). Robert Hare, "remarks on the error of supposing that a communication with the Earth, is necessary to the efficacy of Electrical Machines", pp 297-299; "Practical Observations on the Power Expended in Driving the Machinery of a Cotton Manufactory at Lowell", pp 6-15; "W. Baddeley, (Alfred)Cannings Life Raft", pp 59-61 (published months earlier in London); "Dr. Arnott's Hydrostatic Bed for Invalids", pp 61-66; "(W) Symington's Steam-Boat", with a full page cross section, pp 68-9; "Effects of Trades on Health and Morals" (full title being "Are there any trades so injurious to health, or so hazardous to morals, that they ought, for that reason, to be discouraged, or abandoned?", pp 78-84; John Fincham, "On the timber used for the Masts of Ships", pp 135-137 and pp 196-200; Lafonde, "On the Art of Glass Blowing", pp 254-260 and 327-336; Robert Eastman, "Specification of a patent for an improvement in the Reacting Water Wheel..." with two copperplates, pp 320-322.
Also: full page engraving with a short description of "Mr. Symington's Steam Carriage, 1784-6".
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