Description
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. xi, [i], 299, [1]. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Boards just a touch marked. ‘Early Technology’ bookplate of Michael Bennett-Levy to pastedown.
Wireless Telegraphy, Its History, Theory and Practice.
- New York: McGraw Publishing Company 1905
£200
Notes
An overview of the first ten years of radio transmissions, by prolific science communicator and electric telegraphy expert Archie Frederick Collins (1869-1952), who gained some notoriety through his experiments using dissected brains (animal and human) in primitive radio receivers. Library Hub records just 2 copies: at BL and The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
