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"The Fatal Deadfall of Abolition"--Threatening the Newly-Freed Southern Slaves, 1867

 

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De Bow's Review in 1867--in the dire straights of Southern doom and despair of the just-finished war, lashed out like a wicked conspiratorial rant against the Northern states and anyone who comforted them.  Published in Nashville, all I have of the magazine presently is this loose issue for November 1867, and in spite of the energetically positive view depicted on the cover of the magazine had little to do with what you found in the writing inside.  

The leading article is an odd one, yelling about Great Britain manufacturing the cause of anti-slavery in the United States, which pretty much is made abundantly clear in the title,  "Black Republicanism, the Dupe and Agent of British Policy in Respect to American Interests". The "scheme of so-called Negro Emancipation...is a British Invention" crushing the U.S. which "suffered immeasurably" under the Abolition Program, "the fatal deadfall of the abolition trap", all of which in the end will "crush the innards out of the "Black Republican Yankee".  It was the Brits according to the writer of this article who FORCED THE UNITED STATES TO ABOLISH SLAVERY" [caps in the original]. 

The second article is called "No Treason" and makes the case for the Confederacy for not having committed treasonous acts.  

The article ends with the following enormously assumptive and categorical statements:

 This might be the bones of this issue, but the next article, comes the marrow: "The Future of the Blacks". It is here where "the Blacks" are threatened with death as a race should they become politically and economically mobile, and threatened in such a way that they were being given advice for their own good should the "blacks" (with a little "b") "forget their true position":

The short article was long on advice for the newly-freed slaves of the United States to abide. For example, in citing a letter to the freedmen of Lowndes county, Mississippi (by the same author as this article, still unnamed), the writer admonishes "Mingling in politics never did any man any good, and may prove your ruin". And more:

 

Add on it goes, this bitter article, into its long, fearful, vengeful, and sweaty night.  

Notes:

1. The variations in the title of the magazine gives you a pretty good idea of what they're about: 1846-June 1850, The Commercial review of the South and West (caption title, 1846-Jan. 1847, July 1848-June 1850,  The Commercial Review; from  Feb. 1847-June 1850: De Bow's commercial review of the South and West)--July 1850-Dec. 1852, De Bow's review of the Southern and Western States (caption title: De Bow's southern and western review); 1853-July/Aug. 1864, De Bow's Review and Industrial Resources, Statistics, etc.' 1866-Dec. 1867, De Bow's review, devoted to the restoration of the Southern States, and the development of the wealth and resources of the country...

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De Bow's Review in 1867--in the dire straights of Southern doom and despair of the just-finished war, lashed out like a wicked conspiratorial rant against the Northern states and anyone who comforted them.  Published in Nashville, all I have of the magazine presently is this loose issue for November 1867, and in spite of the energetically positive view depicted on the cover of the magazine had little to do with what you found in the writing inside.  

The leading article is an odd one, yelling about Great Britain manufacturing the cause of anti-slavery in the United States, which pretty much is made abundantly clear in the title,  "Black Republicanism, the Dupe and Agent of British Policy in Respect to American Interests". The "scheme of so-called Negro Emancipation...is a British Invention" crushing the U.S. which "suffered immeasurably" under the Abolition Program, "the fatal deadfall of the abolition trap", all of which in the end will "crush the innards out of the "Black Republican Yankee".  It was the Brits according to the writer of this article who FORCED THE UNITED STATES TO ABOLISH SLAVERY" [caps in the original]. 

The second article is called "No Treason" and makes the case for the Confederacy for not having committed treasonous acts.  

The article ends with the following enormously assumptive and categorical statements:

 This might be the bones of this issue, but the next article, comes the marrow: "The Future of the Blacks". It is here where "the Blacks" are threatened with death as a race should they become politically and economically mobile, and threatened in such a way that they were being given advice for their own good should the "blacks" (with a little "b") "forget their true position":

The short article was long on advice for the newly-freed slaves of the United States to abide. For example, in citing a letter to the freedmen of Lowndes county, Mississippi (by the same author as this article, still unnamed), the writer admonishes "Mingling in politics never did any man any good, and may prove your ruin". And more:

 

Add on it goes, this bitter article, into its long, fearful, vengeful, and sweaty night.  

Notes:

1. The variations in the title of the magazine gives you a pretty good idea of what they're about: 1846-June 1850, The Commercial review of the South and West (caption title, 1846-Jan. 1847, July 1848-June 1850,  The Commercial Review; from  Feb. 1847-June 1850: De Bow's commercial review of the South and West)--July 1850-Dec. 1852, De Bow's review of the Southern and Western States (caption title: De Bow's southern and western review); 1853-July/Aug. 1864, De Bow's Review and Industrial Resources, Statistics, etc.' 1866-Dec. 1867, De Bow's review, devoted to the restoration of the Southern States, and the development of the wealth and resources of the country...

Earbuds, 1891

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Ernest Mercadier (1836-1911, electrical engineer and director at Ecole Polytechnique) may well have introduced the first "ear buds¹" into the technical world.

 

 His apparatus--small listening devices of 1.75² ounces that were padded and fit into the ear--was made for the operator of a telephone so that they could listen and speak and have free use of their hands for notes and such, as pictured on the front cover of this pamphlet. This would have been a shocking thing to see, I think, back there in 1891, only 15 years into the age of the telephone and about half of that for the time in which the still-a-luxury telephone could be accessed by relatively upper-middle-class folks. (In 1881 there were approximately 50,000 Bell telephone stations; in 1885, the year ATT was formed, there were about 150,000; in 1890, 200k and then 600k in 1900. It was in the first decade of the new century where telephone rental/ownership/accessibility really began to spread, with 2.2 million in 1905 and 5.8 million in 1910. Remember that the telephone was only one aspect of communication--all of the massive amount of infrastructure to connect thousands of telephones wasn't yet created.) 

Mercadier was well acquainted with the new device (having written Etudes Sur La Theorie Du Telephone five years earlier in 1886, plus other works on the telegraph and associated beginning in 1881), though what made his instrument so softly revolutionary was that it was one of the first entries into the world of communications microminiaturization--a concept we normally associate with computer development in the middle/late 1950's. As a "headphone" this device is also extremely early though not the first³, though to my eye it is certainly the most elegant, at least that suited to its purpose. The earbud, even though it appears here in 1891, really takes another ten decades to come into its own.

Notes:

Ernest Jules Pierre Mercadier, Bitelephone.  Printed by Jamin in Laval, ca. 1891-3 (though no later than 1893). 21x13.5cm, 15pp, 6 text illustrations showing the device. The author announces that there are patents for his invention at home and abroad: "Brevets et patents en France et a l'Etranger". This is the original pamphlet in wrappers, though at some very early point the pamphlet was bound into a larger manila-folder-like paper cover measuring 25x17cm; the front wrapper of the pamphlet was removed and pasted on the front cover of the new binding. The rear cover is intact. SO, that said, this is a not-perfect copy of the pamphlet, though the much-reproduced and striking cover is present. PROVENANCE: Library of Congress Smithsonian Deposit, accessed in October 1893. 

1.  "Who Made that Earbud?", NYT, May 16, 2014 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/magazine/who-made-that-earbud.html
2.   From the Smithsonian Magazine on Mercadier's invnetion:  “...improvements in telephone-receivers…which shall be light enough to be carried while in use on the head of the operator.” After extensive testing and optimization of telephone receivers, Mercadier was able to produce miniature receivers that weighed less than 1 3/4 ounces and were “adapted for insertion into the ear.” His design is an incredible feat of miniaturization and is remarkably similar to contemporary earbud headphones, down to the use of a rubber cover “to lessen the friction against the orifice of the ear… effectually close the ear to external sounds.”  : http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-partial-history-of-headphones-4693742/#4c4flaaUUVCDrfVX.99  Also a nice notice in an article by The Guardian, "10 Most Influential Headphones".  
    
3. An interesting article in the SVG blog by Mark Schubin (http://www.sportsvideo.org/blogs/?blog=schubin-cafe&news=headphones-history-hysteria) points to the Mercadier device for being perhaps the third earliest headphone, following some others (issuing beginning in 1881) that were earlier but a lot more cumbersome. The Mercadier really were much smaller, more elegant, and a lot lighter than its 19th century companions. That said, the Mercadier device was more a candidate for the earliest earbuds more so than a straightforward headphone.  

For a good timeline on the development of the telephone/telephone system, see: http://www.telephonetribute.com/timeline.html

An Interesting Comment on Life in the Universe, 1933

 

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In the year that the human race started its very real plunge into the Wasteland, Frederick L. Leonard (Chair of the astronomy department at UCLA) had his eyes on another prize. In a short article in Popular Astronomy¹, Prof. Leonard spent a few pages discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life. He kept the discussion in one and two syllable words and was very straightforward, winding up talking about the possibilities of "life" in our own solar system. He quickly dismisses all of the planets as contenders save for Venus and mars, and then wasn't really happy with that, at all, and opened the discussion more as to "life" might be. 

There were several surprises in the article, including one about the authors of Astronomy ( Henry Norris Russell; Raymond Smith Dugan; John Quincy Stewart,  Astronomy: A Revision of Young's Manual of Astronomy ...) being "surprised" that there was no oxygen found on Venus. The bigger moment though was saved for Percival Lowell, who had long labored in support of advanced lifeforms on Mars, though the quote from him regarding extraterrestrial life was really very good. Leonard quotes him so:

"If astronomy has taught us anything it is that man is but a detail in the universe, and the resemblants though diverse detail are inevitably to be expected...[humans] are destined to discover any number of cousins scattered through space."

The odds favor a statement like this, that human life is a "detail" of the universe and that there are not doubt other 'details" to be found, resembling earth life or not. Odd as weren't so much with Lowell in keeping with his intelligent lifeforms being on Mars, which is just a step or two away. In any event, I found the Lowell statement to be a pretty sober appraisal of the possibility of Life Elsewhere, in general.

Notes:

1. Frederick Leonard. "Life on Other Worlds", in Popular Astronomy, May 1933, vol 41 no. 5., pp 260-3 in the issue of pp 239-294.

 

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In the year that the human race started its very real plunge into the Wasteland, Frederick L. Leonard (Chair of the astronomy department at UCLA) had his eyes on another prize. In a short article in Popular Astronomy¹, Prof. Leonard spent a few pages discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life. He kept the discussion in one and two syllable words and was very straightforward, winding up talking about the possibilities of "life" in our own solar system. He quickly dismisses all of the planets as contenders save for Venus and mars, and then wasn't really happy with that, at all, and opened the discussion more as to "life" might be. 

There were several surprises in the article, including one about the authors of Astronomy ( Henry Norris Russell; Raymond Smith Dugan; John Quincy Stewart,  Astronomy: A Revision of Young's Manual of Astronomy ...) being "surprised" that there was no oxygen found on Venus. The bigger moment though was saved for Percival Lowell, who had long labored in support of advanced lifeforms on Mars, though the quote from him regarding extraterrestrial life was really very good. Leonard quotes him so:

"If astronomy has taught us anything it is that man is but a detail in the universe, and the resemblants though diverse detail are inevitably to be expected...[humans] are destined to discover any number of cousins scattered through space."

The odds favor a statement like this, that human life is a "detail" of the universe and that there are not doubt other 'details" to be found, resembling earth life or not. Odd as weren't so much with Lowell in keeping with his intelligent lifeforms being on Mars, which is just a step or two away. In any event, I found the Lowell statement to be a pretty sober appraisal of the possibility of Life Elsewhere, in general.

Notes:

1. Frederick Leonard. "Life on Other Worlds", in Popular Astronomy, May 1933, vol 41 no. 5., pp 260-3 in the issue of pp 239-294.

A Smart Piece of Thinking that also Touches on Extraterrestrial Origins of Life on Earth (1875)

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 A note on a short work by Hermann von Helmholtz. "On the Use and Abuse of the Deductive Method in Physical Science", in a two-part article over two months in Nature:

• December 24, 1874, pp 149-151 in the issue of pp 141-160 and
• January 14, 1875,  pp 211-212 in the January 14, 1875 of 201-220pp.  

 

These two pieces by von Helmholtz are just very nice pieces of thinking, delivering several wonderful insights into the nature of reasoning which spread out into other areas, one of which, interestingly, is on the origins of life. For example, in the first paper, in addition to defending his version of deductive reasoning he drops this bon mot into the equation in mentioning the infection of metaphysics in science:

"Among the scientific investigators who have especially directed their efforts towards the purification of physical science from all metaphysical infection and from all arbitrary hypotheses, and, on the contrary, have striven to make it more and more a simple and faithful expression of the laws of the facts, Sir W. Thomson occupies one of the first places..."--pg 150

In continuing in the second paper, von Helmholtz goes on to make a statement on the probable great longevity of life in the universe in general, and of the possibility that life could be as old as the universe ("whether it  [life] is as old as matter"), and that some germs could have been brought to Earth (for example) on meteorites, meaning that the origins of life could be extraterrestrial.  Helmholtz points out that William Thompson had addressed this issue in 1871, though Helmholtz himself ad spoken on the issue months before that. In any event, here is von Helmholtz again talking about the origin of life and cosmic pansperma, in 1875.

"I will mention one other objection of similar scientific value, because it refers to Sir W. Thomson, though not to a passage of this book. The point in question is whether
it is possible for organic germs to be present in meteoric stones, and so to be conveyed to worlds which have become cool. In his introductory address to the British Association at Edinburgh, in the autumn of 1871, Sir W. Thomson characterised this view as "not unscientific." Here, too, if an error has been committed, I must profess myself a sharer in it. I had, in fact, indicated the same view as a possible explanation of the transmission of organisms through interstellar spaces at a somewhat earlier date than Sir W. Thomson—in a lecture which was delivered at Heidelberg and at Cologne in the spring of the same year, but is still unpublished. If anyone chooses to regard this hypothesis as highly or even as extremely improbable, I have nothing to object. But if failure attends all our efforts to obtain a generation of organisms from lifeless matter, it seems to me a thoroughly correct scientific procedure to inquire whether there has ever been an origination of life, or whether it is not as old as matter, and whether its germs, borne from one world to another, have not been developed wherever they have found a favourable soil. The physical reasons alleged by Mr. Zollner against the view in question are of very little weight. He points to the heating of the meteoric stones, and adds (p. 26) : " Thus, even if we suppose that when the parent body was shattered, the meteoric stone covered with organisms escaped with a whole skin, and did not share the general rise of temperature, it was still necessary for it to pass through the terrestrial atmosphere before it could discharge its organisms to people the earth."--pg 212

There is a tremendous amount going on in just these few pages of created by one of the most able and expansive scientific minds of the 19th century.  

A Beautiful Calendar Calculator (1562)

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Giorlamo Cataneo provided us with this gorgeous circular calendar calculator in his Rote Perpetue..., published by Francesco Marchetti in Brescia in 1562. This is the third-from-last of 58 such tables that illustrate this elusive work.  Cataneo (1540-1586) was an Italian engineer and architect who published at least eight works, many of them quite beautiful, including the fortifications book Dell'arte del misurare libri due, nel primo de'quali s'insegna à misurare, & partir' i campi, which is a particularly lovely thing.

Illustration from:  

Rote perpetue, per le quali si puo con qual numero di due dadi si voglia : overo con due dadi secondo l'horologio d'Italia : ritrouar quando si fà la Luna : le Feste mobili : la Patta : l'Aureo numero : l'Indittione, la Lettera domenicale col bisesto et in che giorno entra il principio d'ogni mese  di. m. Girolamo Cataneo.

Another source for the full book, Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_1ky_MGsNW3AC

The Almost-First Photo of Plutonium (October 1946)

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While writing a post for the bookstore section of this blog on Seaborg's "Transuranium Elements" article that appeared in Science in October 1946 I was struck by the home-made quality of one of the illustrations for the periodic table. Mainly I was curious to see the representation of the actinides (which at this point included up to Curium (synthesized in 1944) and was still three years away from Berkelium (synthesized in 1949). And since I have been on a small mission to define terms I looked up the discovery of actinium, which turns out to be a little complicated, but was perhaps first discovered by André-Louis Debierne  in 1899¹.  This distraction led immediately to another--a photo of a speck of plutonium (hydroxide) in a capillary tube (even at 40x it appears as a tiny white cloudy splotch).  Since plutonium after a certain date was not discussed for obvious security reasons in the Physical Review and  other journals (a date that I keep forgetting but I believe was in late 1940 when the nuclear/explosive aspect of Pu-239 was discovered), I wondered about when the first photo of plutonium appeared, anywhere..and if this was it.  But no, it turned out not to be, though it was close.  The "first" award seems to go to Fritz Goro (1901-1986), the great science photographer for LIFE magazine, who made an image for July 27, 1946, some three months before the Seaborg article appeared and just over a year after the Nagasaki bomb. In any event, I reprint the Science photo (left).

 

 

Notes: 

1. André Louis Debierne  (1899). "Sur un nouvelle matière radio-active". Comptes rendus  129: 593–595.

Study Guide to anti-Semitism, 1944

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I found something interesting in this study guide for anti-Semitism, something that may give a little more weight to some already pretty-weighty things.  The pamphlet was written by William R. Brickman¹ in 1944, and in its 26 leaves about half was devoted to what I think is the jewel of the pamphlet--an annotated bibliography--and the first half or so formulated as a study guide.

In the "historical background" of the guide , in the between-the-wars section, there are eleven points, including the Russian Pogroms of 1915, the Petlura massacre in the Ukraine in 1919-1920, the Iron Guard of Romania... and then the KKK, and of real interest, "Ford and the Protocols". that was Henry Ford of course and his connection and support of the fraud and forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which in 1919 when Ford sunk his teeth into it was already at least 50+ years old as a malignant conspiracy theory of no value.  Ford went on to begin his own series of articles on the "International Jew" as having led the world into WWI and who was a general scourge of the civilized world, publishing a weekly called The International Jew, which Ford published and provided content for from 1920-1927. It was vicious conspiracy pap that finally caught up to Ford in 1927 when was sued ; to escape the coming troubles he claimed that he did not know the contents of the newspaper and basically blamed the editors for the content he never saw.  By that time, the damage had been done, while Henry Ford--even after having issued an apology for having been duped by the Protocols--would later maintain that the Jews had managed to start WWII for financial gain.  So, to be one point in an eleven-point study guard leads me to believe that the Ford business was loftier in the general social consciousness than I expected.

The other detail of note comes in the next section, "In the shadow of the war" which is only four points long, though one of them is on the growth of anti-Semitism in the U.S. (during the war). This was a little surprising in the amount of weight given it in the study guide, or at least a little surprising to me.  

I don't have that much to say on these topics presently as it is a long and hard road, but I did want to at least pass along the notation. 

Notes:

See: the Jewish Virtual Library for background on Ford and the Protocols

1.  Published by the Jewish Coordinating Council, St. Louis, Mo. 28cm, 26 leaves, offset printed from a type original, and bound in wrappers and staple-bound at left. PROVENANCE: Library of Congress, with their surplus/duplicate stamp on the front cover. 

Quantum Mechanics Bibliographic Timeline--the El'yashevich List

This is a handy and interesting timeline of QM placed in chronological order from the article by M A El'yashevich  ( "From the origin of quantum concepts to the establishment of quantum mechanics", by M A El'yashevich, in Soviet Physics USPEKHI, 1977, 20 (8), 656–682.). I did not compose this nor did I add to it in any way—this is the sole effort of Prof. El'yashevich. I did make some slight compositional changes to make the list a little more accessible and usable to people like me, and condensed the list to only 1950 (whereas in the original the entries extend into the 1970's), and made so that each entry is limited to a line or two;  but that's it.

I guess it would be easy to start the list with Planck if you wanted to give it a firm footing somewhere, though the history of quantum mechanics goes into development stages long before the 1900 Planck paper.  Be that as it may, this is just a quick exercise, and if an idea was formed or a lost memory found via a quick look at this list, then it is good enough for me.

• M. Planck, Über irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge, Annalen der Physik, 1 (1900), 60–122,
• Lord Rayleigh, Remarks upon the Law of Complete Radiation, Philosophical Magazine, 49 (1900), 539–540
• M. Planck, Entropie und Temperatur strahlender Wärme, Annalen der Physik, 1 (1900), 719–737,
• M. Planck, Über eine Verbesserung der Wienschen Spekralgleichung, Verb. Deutsch. Phys. Ges., 2 (1900), 202–204,

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• M. Planck, Zur Theorie des Gesetzes der Energieverteilung im Normalspektrum ibid., 1900, 237–245, 251–257)
• M. Planck, Über des Gesetz der Energieverteilung im Nor malspektrum, Annalen der Physik, 4 (1901), 553–563,
• M. Planck, "Über irreversible Strahlungsvorgänge (Nachtrag)", ibid., 6 (1901), 818–831,
• H. A. Lorentz, On the Emission and Absorption by Metals of Rays of Heat of Great Wave-Lengths, Proc. Amsterdam Acad., 5 (1903), 666–685
• J. H. Jeans, On the Partition of Energy between Matter and Aether, Philosophical Magazine, 10 (1905), 91–98
• A. Einstein, Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt, Annalen der Physik, 17 (1905), 132–148;
• M. Planck, Vorlesungen Über die Theorie der Wännestrahlung, (Leipzig, Barth), 1906; (Leipzig, Barth, (2 Aufl.), 1913; (Leipzig, Barth, 3. Anfl.), 1919; (Leipzig, Barth, 4 Aufl.), 1921; 5 Aufl. (Leipzig, Barth), 1923;
• P. Ehrenfest, Zur Planckschen Strahlungstheorie, Physikalische Zeitschrift, 7 (1906), 528–532,
• A. Einstein, Die Plancksche Theorie der Strahlung und die Theorie der spezifischen Wärme, Annalen der Physik, 22 (1907), 180–190;
• A. Einstein, Zum gegenwärtigen Stand des Strahlungsproblems, Physikalische Zeitschrift, 10 (1909), 185–193;
• A. Einstein, "Über die Entwicklung unserer Anschauengen Über des Wesen und die Konstitution der Strahlung", ibid., (1909), 817–825;
• A. E. Haas, Über die elektrodynamische Bedeutung des Planckschen Strahlungsgesetz und Über eine neue Bestimmung des elektrischen Elementarquantums und der Dimensionen des Wasserstoffatoms, Sitzungber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 2a, 119 (1910), 119–144
• P. Debye, Der Warscheinlickeitsbegriff in der Theorie der Strahlung, Annalen der Physik, 33 (1910), 1427–1434
• W. Nernst, Zur Theorie der spezifischen Wärme und Über die Anwendung der Lehre von den Energiequanten auf physikalisch-chemische Fragen überhaupt, Zs. Elektrochem., 17 (1911), 265–275
• W. Nernst and F. Lindemann, "Spezifische Wärme und Quantentheorie", ibid., 8 (1911), 17–827
• M. Planck, Eine neue Strahlungshypothese, Verb. Deutsch. Phys. Ges., 13 (1911), 138–148
• P. Ehrenfest, Welche Züge der Lichtquantenhypothese spielen in der Theorie der Wärme Strahlung eine wesentliche Rolle?, Annalen der Physik, 36 (1911), 91–118,
• M. Planck, Die Gesetze der Wärmestrahlung und die Hypothese der elementaren Wirkungsquanten. Vortrag gehalten auf dem Solway-Kongress, Brüssel, 1911, 282–310)
• A. Einstein, Zum gegenwärtigen Stand, des Problems der Spezifischen Wärme. Vortrag, gehlaten auf dem Solway-Kongress, Brüssel,
• A. Einstein, Thermodynamische Bergründung des photochemisches Äquivalentgesetzes, Annalen der Physik, 37 (1912), 832–838;
• Niels Bjerrum, Über die ultraroten Absorptionspektren der Gase, in: W. Nernst Festchrift, Halle, (1912), S. 90–98
• W. Nicholson, The Constitution of the Solar Corona, II, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc., 72 (1912), 677–692
• P. Debye, Zür Theorie der spezifischen Wännen, Annalen der Physik, 39 (1912), 789–839
• M. Born and T. von Kármán, ÜberSchwingungen in Raungittern, Physikalische Zeitschrift, 13 (1912), 297–309
• M. Born and T. von Kármán, "Zur Theorie der spezifischen Wärme", ibid., 14 (1913), 15–19
• N. Bohr, On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules, Philosophical Magazine, 26:part D, 1–25, 476–502, (part II), 856–875 (part III) (1913);
• P. Ehrenfest, Bemerkung betreffs der spezifischen Wärme zweiatomiger Gase, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, 15 (1913), 451–457
• P. Ehrenfest, A. Mechanical Theorem of Baltzmann and Its Relation to the Theory of Energy Quanta, Proc. Amsterdam Acad., 16 (1914), 591–497,
• N. Bohr, Om brintspektret, Fysisk Tidsskraft, 12 (1914), 97–114, (N. Bohr, Trudy 152–167)
• M. Planck, Eine veränderte Formulierung der Quantenhypo-these, (Sitzungber. Akad. Wiss. Berl.), 1914, 918–923 ;
• P. Ehrenfest, On Adiabatic Changes of a System in Connec tion with the Quantum Theory, Proc. Amsterdam Acad., 19 (1916), 576–597
• A. Einstein, Strahlungs-Emission und-Absorption nach der Quantentheorie, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, 18 (1916), 318–323;
• A. Einstein, Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung, Mitt. d. Phys. Ges. Zürich, Nr., 18 (1916), 47–62;
• N. Bohr, On the Quantum Theory of Line-Spectra, Kgl. dansk. vid. selskab. skr. IV, 1918–1922, 1–36, part D, 37–100 (part II) 101–118 (Part III); German translation in Über die Quantentheorie der Linienspektren, (Braunschweig), 1923
• A. Sommerfeld, Atombau and Spektrallinien, 2. Aufl. (Braunschweig, Viewig), 1921, 1919; 3. Aufl., (1922); 4. Aufl., (1924);
• N. Bohr, "Über die Serienspektra der Elemente", Zeitschrift fur Physik, 2 (1920), 423–469; Über die Serienspektra der Elemente, I,
• A. H. Compton, Secondary Radiations Produced by X-rays, Bull. Nat. Res. Council (pt. 2), 4:No. 20 (1922)
• N. Bohr, Über die Anwendung der Quantentheorie auf den Atombau. I. Grundypostulate der Quantentheorie, Zeitschrift fur Physik, 13 (1923), 117–165;
• A. H. Compton, A Quantum Theory of the Scattering of X-Rays by Light Elements, Physical Review, 21 (1923), 483–502
• P. Debye, Zerstreuung von Röntgenstrahlen und Quanten theorie, Physikalische Zeitschrift, 24 (1923), 161–166
• P. Ehrenfest, Adiabatische Transformationen in der Quanten theorie und ihre Behandlung durch Niels Bohr, Naturwissen-schaften, 11 (1923), 543–550;
• L. de Brogue, Ondes et quanta, Comptes Rendus...de l'Academies des Sciences, 177 (1923), 507–510;
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Very Early Projection of "Moving Pictures" (1883)

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I've written a number of times on this blog about the move from the static to the dynamic image and the early history of cinema. And so it came to me today by accident that I found this article in Nature reporting on the optical work of Gaston Tissandier who many people will remember more for his early aviation exploits than for his work in optics. Nature shares a post made in La Nature about his projecting praxinoscope (defined below¹ from the Oxford English Dictionary)--and as it turns out, the Tissandier paper is a very early published use of "praxinoscope" with this very article referenced in the OED.  The baseline here: the demonstration image is just very neat. 

The text of the article from Nature, (November 16, 1882), a short work on the earliest stages of cinema and "moving pictures":

"THE PROJECTION PRAXINOSCOPE"

"M. GASTON TISSANDIER describes in La Nature an ingenious adaptation of the praxinoscope under the above name by means of which the images are projected on a screen and are visible to a large assembly. Our engraving will give an idea of the arrangement and the effect produced. By a modification of the lampp scope M Reynaud the inventor obtains by means of the ordinary lamp at once the projection of the scene or background by the object glass which is seen at the side of the lantern and of the subject by another object lass which is shown in front of and a little above the same lantern. For this the positions or phases which form a subject are drawn and coloured on glass and are connected in a continuous band by means of any suitable material. One of these flexible bands is placed in the wide crown of the praxinoscope which is pierced with openings corresponding to the phases of the subject."

"To understand the course of the luminous rays which go to form the image it is necessary to bear in mind the condensing lens which placed near the flame of the lamp is not visible in the figure then a plane mirror 45 degrees which reflects the rays and causes them to the figures filling the openings of the crown. These rays reflected once more by the facets of the prism of mirror finally enter tie object glass which transforms the vertical central image into a real image magnified on screen. In making the two parts of the apparatus converge slightly the animated subject is brought into the middle of the background where it then appears to gambol. A hand lever on the foot of the instrument allows a moderate and regular rotation to be communicated. This apparatus with an ordinary moderator lamp supplies well lighted pictures and curious effects It enables us to obtain with the greatest ease animated projections without requiring any special source of light by simply utilising the lamp in daily use."

Notes:

1. From the OED:

"Praxinoscope: A toy resembling a zoetrope, in which a series of figures representing successive positions of a moving object are arranged on the inner surface of a broad, shallow, cylindrical or polygonal drum which is open at the top and has in the middle a corresponding series of mirrors in which the figures are reflected, so that when the drum is rapidly rotated, the persistence of the successive visual images produces the impression of actual motion.

• 1878   C. E. Reynaud Brit. Patent 4244/1877 1   An Improved Apparatus for the Production of Optical Illusions called the ‘Praxinoscope’... The object of this Invention is to produce the illusion of motion by means of Drawings representing the successive phases of an action.
• 1882   Nature 16 Nov. 60/2   M. Gaston Tissandier describes in La Nature an ingenious adaptation of the praxinoscope,..by means of which the images are projected on a screen, and are visible to a large assembly.

The Burning of the Books, May 1933

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The infamous book burnings as we knew them started in their earnest wickedness on German university grounds and city squares on May 10, 1933.  The attempt in destroying intellectualism, history, science, philosophy, beauty, and many other aspects of culture was to protect Germany from past and present destroyers of Teutonic legacy and anything that threatened Hitler's brand-new German reich. So to that end the Nazis in control thought the best way to approach works like these was to burn it all.  

In this editorial cartoon drawn by Georges Schreiber the Nazis are portrayed in a bestial, devilish,  and accurate light. The image appeared in The Nation (volume 136 no. 3541) on May 17, 1933, and as we can see a zombie-ish Hitler is seen in the upper left, with an aged Paul von Hindenburg to his right. The flames are built on a pile of some of the damned books, featuring Einstein front and center (as the representative of the "degenerate Jewish science"), surrounded by works id Remarque, Ludwig, Heine x2, Mendelssohn, Spinoza, London, and others:

For an  example of the targeted books have a look at the following  list (from Wolfgang Herman's "Prinzipelles zur Säuberung der öffentlichen Bücherein,"  Börsenblatt für den deutschen Büchhandel 100 (5/16/1933):, 356-358 [Principles for the Cleansing of Public Libraries] was for the use of librarians in keeping their collections free from various types of art/science/tech/literature/art/music, and needless to say anything that was written by a Jewish author):

 

"1. The works of traitors, emigrants and authors from foreign countries who believe they can attack and denigrate the new German (H.G. Wells, Rolland) ; 2. The literature of Marxism, Communism and Bolshevism. 3. Pacifist literature. 4. Literature with liberal, democratic tendencies and attitudes, and writing supporting the Weimar Republic (Rathenau, Heinrich Mann); 5. All historical writings whose purpose is to denigrate the origin, the spirit and the culture of the German Volk, or to dissolve the racial and structural order of the Volk, or that denies the force and importance of leading historical figures in favor of egalitarianism and the masses, and which seeks to drag them through the mud (Emil Ludwig); 6. Writings of a philosophical and social nature whose content deals with the false scientific enlightenment of primitive Darwinism and Monism (Haeckel); 7. Books that advocate "art" which is decadent, bloodless, or purely constructivist (Grosz, Dix, Bauhaus, Mendelsohn); 8. Writings on sexuality and sexual education which serve the egocentric pleasure of the individual and thus, completely destroy the principles of race and Volk (Hirschfeld); 9. The decadent, destructive and Volk-damaging writings of "Asphalt and Civilization" literati! (Graf, H. Mann, Stefan Zweig, Wassermann, Franz Blei). [transl. note: a derogatory term for writers dealing with upper middle class urban society]; 10. Literature by Jewish authors, regardless of the field; 11. Popular entertainment literature that depicts life and life's goals in a superficial, unrealistic and sickly sweet manner, based on a bourgeois or upper class view of life."

• [Source: When Books Were Burned, University of Arizona Library, for the source and for the translation:   http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/burnedbooks/documents.htm#guidelines ]

When Did the Term "Computer Science" First Appear?

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Some time ago I wrote a post on the origins of some scientific words, just to see how long they have been around--some are well-known in their newness (like "scientist" coming along in 1834, ¹  anonymously referenced in the Quarterly Review, volume 51, page 59), others not so.

And so when an interesting word relating to artificial intelligence appeared I wondered when AI itself did (J. McCarthy 1955 and then Marvin Minsky 1956)...which led to the question of how old the term "computer science" is, and so on. Not wanting to spend more than a half hour on this I decided to establish the Oxford English Dictionary as the baseline for earliness in the first (or at least very early) appearances in English of these words and let it go at that. So here's the list, a quick shake-and-bake on the early origins of some standard and not-so-standard words in computer science.

A footnote here is that 10 of the 38 words here appear during the life of Charles Babbage (whose eye are posted above). 

Notes:

1.  The word is provided to us in the text of an article on Mary Somerville by William Whewell who references the word "scientist" coming from "a gentleman" who was  I guess himself; he uses the word under his own name in 1840.

• Computer Science. 1956   N.Y. Times 28 Oct. iii. 21 (advt.)    "Unparalleled opportunities to associate with the prominent pioneers of computer science, at outstanding salaries. Electronic engineers (circuit designers and magnetics engineers), logical designers, [etc.]."

• Computer programming: 1952   Proc. ACM National Meeting (Toronto) 20/1   "In fact three principles should apply to computer programming and operation in general, and not just to code checking." This was followed by “computer programmer” after three years.  

• And so:

• computationalism, n.1979

• computationalist, n....1956

• computatist, n.1611

• computative, adj.a1538

• computator, n.1591

• compute, n.1483

• compute, v.1579

• computed, adj.1680

The Shock of (Color) Recognition (1939)

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Continuing a post from earlier today on the idea of applying a diacritical to an adjective expressing surprise (!) in the recognition of a color I share the following series of images appearing in the 1939 edition of Armstrong Cork Company's Beauty Hints for the Home Decorator. Now, somewhere in there should be an exclamation point or two, liberally applied sentence enhancers. And that's what I looked for, my little box of exclamation points (absent the non-existent diacriticals) when I saw photos of these spectacular rooms of distinction in the Armstrong catalog.  As I've written earlier, the colors (!) were quite a surprise, like seeing painted Roman statuary. For example, there is this magnificent (?) bedroom, with two twin beds, tall skinny chairs next to a tall skinny fireplace, and then those colors:

 

 

Oddly Adjectival Color Plumpness, continued (1938)

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I've written a number of times on what seems to be "extreme" color in the 1930's  (as in "Oddly Adjectival Opposites: Color Plumpness and Color-in-Black-and-White, 1941" http://longstreet.typepad.com/books/2011/02/odd.html) and come to it again today via the weirdly sublime color contrasts of rugs and floor coverings offered in the Bird Rug Catalog for 1938. I've thought about and seen so many of these images in luscious grays and stark blacks that it is difficult to think of these same images in gigantic color. It is just hard to picture Mr. Bogart's eyes and his accusing/weary glance being framed by that blue chair and all of the colors bombarding it. There should I guess be a diacritical of some sort to attach to the vocabulary of colors to express "surprise", as I could surely employ it in describing that blue linoleum floor:

Deep closeup of flooring:

 

Flooring details