RAYLEIGH, LORD (J.W. STRUTT).

On the Clark Cell as a Standard of Electro-motive Force. Received Jan. 7, - Read Jan. 21, 1886.

(London, Harrison and Sons, 1886). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" Year 1885, Volume 176 - Part II. - Pp. 781-800. Clean and fine.

First printing of Rayleigh's investigation of the Clark Cell that became known as the Board of Trade Cell of 1894.

"Rayleigh's grasp of such widely diversed fields as optics and hydrodynamics, acoustics and electromagnetic theory, was phenomenal; and only Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz came near him in this aspect of his genius."(DSB XIII, p.102).

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