Lot 676

HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-94). Untersuchungen ueber die Augbreitung der Elektrischen Kraft, Leipzig, 1892, contemporary vellum. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of Hertz's highly important series of papers on electromagnetic waves.

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HERTZ, Heinrich Rudolf (1857-94).  Untersuchungen ueber die Ausbreitung der Elektrischen Kraft. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1892. 8vo (220 x 140mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, illustrations and diagrams. Contemporary vellum-effect half paper and marbled boards, author and title in old manuscript on spine (a few letters rubbed away). Provenance: "Ergentum v, Prof. Bruch, iv. 136" (faint inscription on front free endpaper [significance unclear]); "Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gesellschaft Bibliothek" (red stamp at foot of front free endpaper); remnants of the top of a bookplate torn away from front pastedown; from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of Hertz's highly important series of papers on electromagnetic waves which includes the proof that they travel at the speed of light and that they can be created and sent through space by means of wireless telegraphy; they have been of profound and lasting importance to 20th-century technology. Honeyman 1669; Norman 1061; PMM 377: "Experimental proof by Hertz of the Faraday-Maxwell hypothesis that electrical waves can be projected through space"; Sparrow Milestones of Science 101; Waller 1137.

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