[PW] ? Nikola Tesla again

[Dennis Lien]

At 07:00 PM 6/7/2007, you wrote:
>Around that time, Tesla gave a lecture to the Royal Institution in
>London -- there is a series of volumes of reprints of these that I last
>saw some twenty years ago, and cannot now find in the library where I
>saw it.
>
>At this point, I was going to appeal for help in identifying the volumes
>when a thunderbolt under my left lughole reminded me that a photocopy
>was taken.  There is nothing wrong with the filing system, so it is
>before me.
>
>I can now say with certainty that the volumes were called "Library of
>Science".  And Tesla DID speak at the RI on Thursday February 4, 1892 on
>"Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency".  it appears
>at pages 167-182 of its volume, but I must caution that I recollect this
>as a multi-volume work, and I did not note the volume number.  I
>recollect that they were assembled in chronological order.
>
>The Fisherfolk have messed with the OPAC at the library of my alma
>mater, but I suspect that this may help:  Physical sciences. Edited by
>Sir William Lawrence Bragg and George Porter. [Barking, Eng.] Elsevier
>Pub. Co., 1970.  There appear to be ten volumes, which sounds about right.


Here's a WorldCat record that includes a subtitle that confirms Peter's
filing:


Title:          Physical sciences :
(being the Friday evening discourses in physical sciences held at the Royal 
Institution : 1851-1939) /
Author(s):      Bragg, William Lawrence,; Sir,; 1890-1971.
Porter, George.
Corp Author(s):         Royal Institution of Great Britain.
Publication:    London : Applied Science,
Year:   1970
Description:    10 v. : ill. + index.
Language:       English
Series:         Royal Institution library of science;
Standard No:    ISBN: 0853346151; 9780853346159

In same series, I find this, which might also be a likely
spot for Tesla reprint:

Title:          Wireless telegraphy /
Author(s):      Eastwood, Eric, Sir, 1910-  comp.
Publication:    London : Applied Science Publishers,
Year:   1974
Description:    xi, 391 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:       English
Series:         Royal Institution library of science;
Standard No:    ISBN: 0853345945 :; 9780853345947 LCCN: 75-319760
         SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor:     Telegraph, Wireless.
Telegraph.
Telephone.
Note(s):        Includes bibliographical references and index.


There are also volumes in series on ASTRONOMY; EARTH SCIENCES;
and CHEMICAL MANIPULATION.


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu