Arthur Korn: six offprints, 1913-1927. $950 (Details below.)
Korn (1870-1945) was one of the founders of television working in the field of fax transmission, and on 8th October, 1906 he transmitted the first image via wire of Crown Prince WIlliam. Being of Jewish descent, Korn (of Breslau) fled Germany in 1939 and settled in the United States, finding a teaching position and chair in math and physics at Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey). the following offprints include one (the first) with some very early fax transmission results (1913), and includes three other signed works.
The offprints include the following:
"Ueber telegraphishe Uebertragungen kinematographischer Aufnahmen", offprint from Verhandlungen der Detuschen Physicalishcen Gesellschaft, 23 Sept 1913. Original printed wrappers. Very good copy. Showing two illustrations of the results of Korn's image transfer by wire invention.
"Das Elektron als pulsierendes Teilchen mit konstantem Pulsationsquantum", offprint from Deutschen Physicallischen Gesellschaft, Septmber 1913. Original printed wrappers. Very good.
"Ueber den gegenwartigen Stand der Bildtelegraphie.... Offprint: Elektrotechnischen Zeitschrift, heft 16, 1914. Signed presentation copy. Good condition. Original wrappers.
"Ueber die Anwendung der Methode der sukzessiven Naherungen zur Losung von linearen Integralgleichungen mit unsymmetriwchen Kernen.", offprint from Archiv der MAthemaitk und Physik, 25/2, 4 August 1916. Original printed wrappers. Very good.
"Sulle forze d'attrazione e di repulsione negli atomi" in Atti della Acad. delle Scienze di Torino, vol LX, 1925. Signed presentation copy to Hans Reissner. Very good copy.
"Wellenmechanik und meine mechanischen Theorien. Beruehrungspunkte und Divergenzen". Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin, 1927. Offprint: Zeitschrift fuer Physik, volume 44, heft 9/10, pp 745-753. Signed "uberricht vom Verfasser".
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