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Earnshaw, Harry. The Adventures of Detectives Black and Blue.. 1931. 207 leaves 4to. Fine condition. RARE collection of the first twenty episodes of ONE OF THE FIRST-BROADCAST DETECTIVE CRIME DRAMAS. 207 leaves (printed on one side only). (The radio series featuring Sax Romer's Fu Manchu aired in 1927--this is probably the very first detective series, though the central character in it all is the hyperbolic template for evil-genius criminality, Fu.) Covers the period 5 January 1931 to 30 January 1931, the first 20 episodes of the serial. These were 15-minute radio-plays, beginning 5 January 1931 and ending 30 January, broadcast every weekday at 5:30 pm. +++???This is the World's First Broadcast Detective Series (WKHJ, Los Angeles) Detectives Black and Blue; Los Angeles: Earnshaw-Young Radio Department. 1931. These are in-house sheets--they are very similar-looking to mimeographed sheets, printed in light-purple ink. The text is printed on a template Radio Department, Earnshw-Young, Inc. Advertising stationery, on every page, with standard information for sponsor/.station/day/time/date in the banner of every sheet. (The word "Continuity" is also printed across the top of every sheet in 30-point type). Jim Black and his partner Frank Blue appeared in "Detectives Black and Blue," a radio serial that ran from 1932 to 1935. Black and Blue were shipping clerks working in Duluth who had a hankering for a more exciting lifestyle. They took a correspondence course and received their "Detective's degree," which led them to open their own agency, whose motto was "Detec-a-tives Black and Blue, good men tried and true." Although they were bumblers, they inevitably caught their man, and had a decent success rate. Detectives Black and Blue was broadcast by Don Lee Broadcasting. (Donald Musgrave Lee (12 August 1880, Michigan [1] 30 August 1934, Los Angeles, California) was the exclusive west coast distributor of Cadillac automobiles in the early 20th century. In 1919 Lee purchased the Earl Automobile Works of Hollywood, California. Harley Earl, the son of the company's owner, was kept on as manager. Renamed Don Lee Coach and Body Works, the company produced many custom designed Cadillacs for the rich and famous. Harley Earl left the company to become the head of General Motors styling department in 1927. Don Lee died in Los Angeles in 1934 of a sudden heart attack, leaving control of his auto and broadcasting empire to his son, Thomas S. "Tommy" Lee (19061950). Having amassed a fortune selling automobiles Lee branched out in broadcasting in 1926 when he purchased KFRC in San Francisco and relocated the station to the top floor of his Cadillac dealership at 1000 Van Ness Blvd. In 19! 27 he purchased KHJ in Los Angeles, Ca. From 1929 to 1936, the 12-station Don Lee Network was affiliated with Columbia Broadcasting System. This venture was known as the Don Lee-Columbia Network. However, in 1936, CBS purchased KNX-AM, along with some other West Coast stations. It also forged some new West Coast network alliances. This led to the Don Lee Network, now run by son Tommy Lee, to end its affiliation with CBS. Instead, on December 30, 1936, it became an affiliate of the Mutual Network. In 1931 Lee was granted a license to begin experimental television broadcasts with station W6XAO in Los Angeles.[3] The station later became KTSL, KNXT and is currently KCBS-TV. The ridge above the Hollywood sign, where Lee established his transmitter, is still known as "Mount Lee.) +++Some interesting reading about Detectives Black and Blue: Probably the first detective show of any kind� http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/durbrid.htm Also popular in syndication are an assortment of canned comedy-serial programs trying to ride the coattails of the "Amos n Andy" craze. Isolated episodes of "The Adventures of Si and Elmer" and "Detectives Black and Blue" survive to document this trend�(Documenting Early Radio site http://www.old-time.com/mcleod/mcleod6.html) Detectives Black and Blue scoop.diamondgalleries.com/scoop_article.asp?ai=11679&si=126 - 6k Did you Know...?, Scoop, Friday, March 31, 2006 Ever wonder where the buddy-cop-comedy genre came from? It didn't begin with shows like Car 54, Where Are You?. It dates all the way back to 1932, when Los Angeles radio station KHJ first aired Adventures of Detectives Black and Blue. The syndicated show followed the exploits of Jim Black and his partner, Frank Blue. Black and Blue began as shipping clerks from Duluth with daydreams of bringing down bad guys. Of course, neither had any law enforcement knowledge. But all that was remedied when they decided to take a correspondence course to earn their "Detectives degree." As you may imagine, hilarity ensued. Even with their official degrees, born sleuths these two weren't. The radio schtick focused on their bumbling and botching, but each episode ended happily, as they captured criminals in comical capers. The show lasted for two years, thanks to sponsors Iodent toothpaste and Folger's coffee. Each sponsor released brass Detectives Black and Blue badges in the show's inaugural year. Iodent also released a fabric double-billed detective's cap (checkered and printed with Iodent and the radio show title on the front bill). Conservative condition grade: a sold, and retrospective, VERY GOOD+ (say, a conservative 7.5 on a 1-10 scale (ten being Mint)). There is a small amount of cover dust and grime, but generally the pamphlet is in very fresh and clean condition. (Book ID 22976) $4,500.00

Eckert, Wallace J.. The IBM Pluggable Sequence Relay Calculator. Washington DC: National Research Council, 1948. 1st edition. Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation, III/23 Original printed wrappers. Very good condition. The contents of this issue includes: W. J. E. The IBM Pluggable Sequence Relay Calculator . . . 149--161 Herbert F. Mitchell, Jr. Inversion of a Matrix of Order $38$ . . 161--166 Herbert E. Salzer Coefficients for Expressing the First Thirty Powers in Terms of the Hermite Polynomials . . . 167--169 Anonymous Technical Developments (in Automatic Computing Machinery) . . . 206--206 R. E. Clippinger Airflow Problem Planned for the ENIAC (in Automatic Computing Machinery; Discussions) . . .. 206--207 Bruce L. Hicks and H. G. Landau Nonlinear Parabolic Equations (in Automatic Computing Machinery; Discussions) . . . 207--208 John V. Holberton Laminar Boundary Layer Flow in a Compressible Fluid (in Automatic Computing Machinery; Discussions) . . . 208--208 Joseph H. Levin On the Approximate Solution of a Partial Differential Equation on the Differential Analyzer (in Automatic Computing Machinery; Discussions) . . . 208--209 M. Lotkin Computation of the Airflow about a Cone Cylinder (in Automatic Computing Machinery; Discussions) . . . 209--210 Anonymous A New Class of Computing Aids (in Other Aids to Computation) . . . 217--221 Anonymous Corrigenda . . . 227--227 A description of the special-purpose wartime punched-card calculators originally developed by IBM for the United States Army. The first two machines of this type, were built during the war for the Aberdeen proving ground, were delivered in December 1944, and were in operation during the last eight months of the war…For comparison with the I.B.M. Sequence Controlled Calculator at Harvard this machine is limited in internal storage capacity, number of significant figures, and flexibility of sequencing; on the other hand, multiplying speed is about twenty times as great.” Hook and Norman, 579. (Book ID 22906) $750.00

Evarts, William M.. Copies of Papers showing the Agreement between the Government and the Union Pacific Railroad. Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1869. 1st edition. 8pp 8vo. Paper wrappers. Good or better condition. Old rubberstampps proclaim this to be from the Caleb Cushing Collection. Evarts: born in Boston, Ma., Feb. 6, 1818. Graduate of Yale and Harvard Law School. Admitted to the bar in New York City, 1841. Chief counsel for President Johnson at the impeachment, 1868. Attorney General for the U.S., 1868-72. Represented the U.S. at Geneva, "Alabama" tribunal, 1872. Secretary of State, 1876-80. Elected U.S. Senator, 1885. Wrote opinions and rulings concerning the Unioon PAcific RR Co. (Book ID 21825) $125.00

Farnsworth, Philo T.. 1954 Workbook on the Invention of a new electronic piano and a new method of electronically recording creative musical c. Manuscript, 1954. 1st edition. 14 sheets Very good condition. 1954 Workbook on the Invention of a new electronic piano and a new method of electronically recording creative musical composition. 14 Carbon Sheets. 2pp cover letter typed and signed by Farnsworth. Original manuscript. Unique. Please call. This is a fabulous piece of work by Farnsworth on the application of a new technology-the digital computer-to the field of music (in specific) and to "creative workers" (in general). Farnsworth, who was recently selected as one of the Time Magazine 100 Most Influential Americans of the Twentieth Century, held numerous patents and is considered to be "the father of television", and whose statue is in the US Capitol. (Book ID 20199) $12,500.00

Fung, Y.C.. Buckling of Thin-Walled Circular Cylinders under Axial Compression and Internal Pressure. Ramo-Wooldridge Corp, 1955. 1st edition. 35pp, plus 4pp appendix, + 5 orig photos 4to. Very good condition. Written with E.E. SEchler and printed for extremely limited internal distribution by the Aeromechanics Section of the Guided Missile Research Division of Ramo-Wooldridge. Ramo-Wooldridge is the "RW" of "TRW" (the "T" was for "Thompson"). The Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation was named for SImon Ramo and a fellow California Institute of Technology doctoral classmate, Dean E. Wooldridge, and started in 1953. Ramo-Wooldridge provided technical advice and systems analysis to the first Air Force ballistic missile program which produced the Thor, Alas, and Titan missiles in a five to six-year time period from start to finish. The other company was Bunker-Ramo, a computer venture; Allied Corporation, now Allied Signal, acquired it in 1981. (Book ID 22503) $250.00

HArtree, Douglas R.. Approximate Wave Functions and Atomic Field for Mercury.. American Physical Society, 1934. 1st edition. The Physical Review, 46(8), 15 OCtober 1934 Original printed wrappers. Fine condition. British physicist D.R. Hartree was the first to use an automatic calculator for problems in atomic theory. During the summer of 1933 he went to MIT and used Vannevar Bush's differential analyzer for the first stages of the computations for this article The work was a success, and on his return to England, he undertook with Arthur Porter the building of a model of the machine. We offer the entire weekly issue of the Physical Review in its original green wrappers, with the Hartree article occupying pp 738-743 (the issue being pp633-746). SCARCE. According to the DSB: "Hartree's chief contribution to science was his development of powerful methods of numerical mathematical analysis, which made it possible for him to apply successfully the so-called self-consistent field method to the calculation of atomic wave functions of polyelectronic atoms, that is, those which in the neutral condition have more than one electron surrounding the nucleus. These calculations involved the numerical solution of the partial differential equations of quantum mechanics for many-body systems subject to the usual boundary conditions. From the atomic wave functions it is possible to calculate the average distribution of negative electric charge as a function of distance from the nucleus. (Book ID 23193) $650.00

Hartree, Douglas. Calculating Instruments and Machines. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1949. 1st edition. ix,138 Royal 8vo. Cloth. Very good condition. First Edition of a pioneering work in computing, based on a series of lectures given at the University of Illinois in 1948. The first four chapters are devoted to analogue devices, particularly differential analyzers, including a device the author constructed in 1934 from toy parts. Chapter 5 is devoted to digital computers, which the author clearly prefers. Chapter 6 describes Babbages machines, with a discussion of Lady Lovelaces 1843 paper. Chapter 7 is on the Harvard Mark I & II calculators. Chapter 8 discusses various projects in development, including magnetic drums and tapes, Boolean algebra for circuit analysis and flowcharts for programming. There are brief accounts of the plans for several machines, including EDVAC, UNIVAC, and Mark III. The last chapter is a perspective survey of the prospects for numerical analysis. Goldstine p.99. Randell p.136: Includes fairly extensive discussion of Babbages work, the Harvard Mark I, ENIAC and the I.B.M. Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator. (Book ID 22761) $500.00

Hopkinson, John. Original papers by the Late John Hopkinson Volume I: Technical Papers; volume II, Scientific Papers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1901. 294+390pp 8vo. Cloth. Very fine condition. But for a small smudge on the spine of volume one, this is a superb set. In addition to having been elected fellow of the Royal Society at twenty-nine, he was twice president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. At the age of forty-nine Hopkinson, with three of his children [another, Bertram, wrote the 58-page Biography in this volume], was killed in a mountain climbing accident in the Alps" (Bern Dibner in D. S. B. VI: 504). Some of teh contents of interest: On Electric Lighhouses, pp6-33; On Electric Lighting, pp 33-56;and Dynamo-Electric Machinery pp 84-121. (Book ID 9140) $350.00

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