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| Autore principale: | Keithley, Joseph F.
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| Titolo: | The story of electrical and magnetic measurements : from 500 BC to the 1940s / Joseph F. Keithley. |
| Pubblicazione: | New York : The Institute of electrical and electronics engineers, c1999. |
| Descrizione fisica: | XV, 240 p. : ill., ritr. ; 26 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Measurements from the beginning through the Middle Ages: Thales of Miletus (640-546 BC), Peter Peregrinus (dates unknown) 2. The beginnings of experimental science: William Gilbert (1544-1603) 3. The first rotating electrostatic generator: Otto von Guericke (1602-1686) 4. Electric conductors and insulators: Francis Hauksbee (ca. 1666-1713), Stephen Gray (1666-1736), Granville Wheler (1701-1770) 5. Vitreous and resinous electric fluid: Charles Francois de Cisternay du Fay (1698-1739) 6. The Leyden jar, the first capacitor: Georg Matthias Bose (1710-1761), Ewald Georg von Kleist (ca. 1700-1748), Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692-1761) 7. A bolt of lightning is an electric discharge: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) 8. Early electrostatic-measuring instruments: John Canton (1718-1772), Tiberius Cavallo (1749-1809), Horace Benedict de Saussure (1740-1799), Abraham Bennet (1750-1799), Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) 9. The first quantitative measurements of electricity and magnetism: Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806) 10. A carefully prepared leg of a dead frog twitches when stimulated electrically: Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) 11. Current electricity can be produced by chemical action: Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) 12. An electric current has an associated megnetic field: Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) 13. The foundations of electrodynamics: Andre Marie Ampère (1775-1836) 14. Early electromagnetic indicating instruments: Johann Salomo Christof Schweigger (1779-1857), Johann Christian Poggendorf (1796-1877), James Cumming (1777-1861), Leopoldi Nobili (1784-1835) 15. Mathematics using harmonically related sinusoids: Jean Baptiste Fourier (1768-1830) 16. Ohm's law: X=a/1, E=IR, or I=V/R: Georg Simon Ohm (1789-1854) 17. Advanced applications of mathematics to measurements and the development to many magnetic and electrical measuring instruments: Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804-1891) 18. Acoustics and electricity research: Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) 19. Transformations of electrical and mechanical energy: Michael Faraday (1791-1867) 20. Electromagnetics and self-inductance: Joseph Henry (1797-1878) 21. The Kelvin scale, transatlantic cable, sensitive galvanometers and electrometers: William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) 22. Electromagnetic radiation: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) 23. The beginnings of radio: Heinrich Rudolph Hertz (1857-1894), Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) 24. The story of a successful electrical instruments manufacturer: Edward Weston (1850-1936) 25. The discovery of the electron, pt. I: Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940) 26. The discovery of electron, pt. II: Verifying J.J. Thomson's results and developments leading into twentieth century. Appendix: photo section. Index. About the author |
| ISBN: | 0780311930 |
| Discipline: | Elettricità e Magnetismo--Strumenti. Elettricità e Magnetismo--Persone. |
| Keyword: | Strumenti--Fisica. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Medioevo. Rinascimento. Secoli XVII-XX. |
| Collocazione: | LS 11952 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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