Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Latimer, Lewis Howard, 1848-1928.

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

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

Description

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

Donor/Sponsor

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

Series Statement

Van Nostrand's science series ; no. 57

Uniform Title

Van Nostrand's science series ; no. 57.

Subject

Electric lighting, Incandescent

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

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

Provenance (note)

• 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.

Call Number

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

LCCN

07039827

OCLC

5227516

Author

Latimer, Lewis Howard, 1848-1928.

Title

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

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

Series

Van Nostrand's science series ; no. 57

Van Nostrand's science series ; no. 57.

Provenance

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

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Added Author

Field, C. J.

Howell, John W. (John White), 1857-1937.

D. Van Nostrand Company, publisher.

Langlotz, R., active 1892, former owner, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Research Call Number

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