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Details

Additional authors

1. Field, C. J.
2. Howell, John W. (John White), 1857-1937.
3. D. Van Nostrand Company, publisher.

Description

1. 140 p., [5] folded leaves of plates : ill.; 15 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Series statement

1. Van Nostrand's science series ; no. 57

Uniform title

1. Van Nostrand's science series ; no. 57.

Subject

1. Electric lighting, Incandescent

Genre/Form

1. Inscriptions (Provenance)

Call number

1. Sc Rare 621.3-L (Latimer, L. H. Incandescent electric lighting)

Note

1. "Copyright, 1890, by D. Van Nostrand Company."--verso of title page.
2. Series advertisement, p. [2].

Provenance (note)

1. inscribed: in pencil on recto of free endleaf preceding series advertisement page "R. Langlotz April 1892." ; Inscribed: in ink on same page "A. Schomburg. Sep. 1914." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Author

1. Latimer, Lewis Howard, 1848-1928.

Title

1. Incandescent electric lighting : a practical description of the Edison system / by L.H. Latimer ; to which is added the Design and operation of incandescent stations, by C.J. Field ; and a paper on The maximum efficiency of incandescent lamps, by John W. Howell.

Imprint

1. New York : D. Van Nostrand Company, 23 Murray and 27 Warren Street, 1890.

Series

1. Van Nostrand's science series ; no. 57
2. Van Nostrand's science series ; no. 57.

Provenance

1. Copy in Sc Rare 621.3-L (accession no. B594235) inscribed: in pencil on recto of free endleaf preceding series advertisement page "R. Langlotz April 1892." ; Inscribed: in ink on same page "A. Schomburg. Sep. 1914." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Field, C. J.
2. Howell, John W. (John White), 1857-1937.
3. D. Van Nostrand Company, publisher.
4. Langlotz, R., active 1892, former owner, inscriber.
5. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

LCCN

1. 07039827

Research call number

1. Sc Rare 621.3-L (Latimer, L. H. Incandescent electric lighting)