Author: Bridgman, Percy Williams [1883-1961]
Title: The Technique of High Pressure Experimenting / by P. W. Bridgman
Description: [Boston], 1914. orig. wrappers. (18) pp. Some light cover stains and some light rumpling to corner. Cover title.. Rubbed. Cover edge tears. Good. ¶ Pagination runs 625-643. "Contributions from the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University / Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 49, no. 11". ["Percy Williams Bridgman was an American physicist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of science. Bridgman entered Harvard University in 1900, and studied physics through to his Ph.D.. From 1910 until his retirement, he taught at Harvard, becoming a full professor in 1919. In 1905, he began investigating the properties of matter under high pressure. A machinery malfunction led him to modify his pressure apparatus; the result was a new device enabling him to create pressures eventually exceeding 100,000 kgf/cm² (10 GPa; 100,000 atmospheres). This was a huge improvement over previous machinery, which could achieve pressures of only 3,000 kgf/cm² (0.3 GPa). This new apparatus led to an abundance of new findings, including a study of the compressibility, electric and thermal conductivity, tensile strength and viscosity of more than 100 different compounds. Bridgman is also known for his studies of electrical conduction in metals and properties of crystals. He developed the Bridgman seal and is the eponym for Bridgman's thermodynamic equations.Bridgman made many improvements to his high pressure apparatus over the years, and unsuccessfully attempted the synthesis of diamond many times..." - wikipedia].

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