Early Papers on the Telephone, Phonograph, and Liquefaction of Oxygen

Ayres, Brown (Stevens Institute). “The Telephone”, June 1878, pp 378-393 in Journal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1878; volume 75 (third series) and volume 105 overall, with text illustrations and several folding tables,  432pp.  Half-calf, with raised bands. Ex-library, with some scuffing on the spine; also a few stamps on the title page, and a library card pocket at the rear endpaper. Good/Very Good. $150

Also in the volume:

S.M. Plush, “Edison’s Carbon Telephone Transmitter, and the Speaking Phonograph”, April 1878, pp 266-271;

Gustave Trouve, “Apparatus for Producing Electric Light”, Jan 1878, pp 44-47;

Report of the Committee on Dynamo-Electric Machines”, May 1878, pp 289-303; continued as Edwin  J. Houston and Elihu Thomson, “Report of the Committee on Dynamo-Electric Machines  (continued from vol 85 pg 303). June 1878, pp 361-378.

W.H. Greene, trans., “Liquefaction of Oxygen”, translating the famous report of Cailletet to the Academie des Sciences in December 1877.  February 1878, pp 119-129.

“M. Cailletet’s Apparatus for Liquefying Gases” “In 1877 Louis Paul Cailletet in France and Raoul Pictet in Switzerland liquefied oxygen in the form of a mist. The liquefaction of the first of the so-called permanent gases heralded the birth of low-temperature research and is often described in the literature as having started a ‘race’ for attaining progressively lower temperatures. In fact, between 1877 and 1908, when helium, the last of the permanent gases, was liquefied, there were many priority disputes—something quite characteristic of the emergence of a new research field.”—Faidra Papenelopoulou,  “Louis Paul Cailletet: The liquefaction of oxygen and the emergence of low-temperature research”, Royal Society, 2013