Author: RÖNTGEN, WILHELM KONRAD
Title: (On a new form of radiation.)
Description: London, Printed and Published for the Proprietors by George Tucker, ... Fleet Street, 1896. 4to. (30 x 20 cm). Original publisher's cloth binding. (Spine discol.; top of spine at outer hinges some dam.). (Pp. 415/17 & 850/1.). (Published in "The Electrician", a weekly illustrated journal of electrical engineering, industry and science. Vol. 36, nr. 923, Friday, January 24, 1896 and nr 936, April 24, 1896.). (Total pp. vol. 36 is 876.). Second edition in English by only one day. Originally published December 1895 in the "Sitzungs Bericht der Physikalisch-medicinischen Gesellschaft zu Würzburg, nr. 9, pp. 132 - 141, Röntgen dispatched a small number of offprints early January 1896. From this moment on news of the discovery of the X-ray conquered the world. Translations in many languages followed. The translation here offered is one of two that appeared in England. One version is the one by Arthur Stanton, which appeared in "Nature" on January 23, 1896, the second one is the one here offered which appeared one day later in "The Electrician" of January 24, 1896. Klickstein, p. 71: 'The majority of subsequent contemporary printings of the English rendering of the first communication in both England and the United States were copied from these two translations.': We offer the complete volume 36 of "The Electrician", November 1, 1895 - April 24 1896. Included are reactions and comment on Röntgen's discovery on pp. 333, 399, 448, 501, 537, 713, 843. In the index a further 15 references under "Röntgen Rays", including Lodge (438, 471, 783), Boltzmann (447), Righi (552), Elihu Thomson (661), Henri Becquerel (680), Minchin (713, 736) etc.

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