Frederick leland rhodes (9 Ergebnisse)

unknown_binding. Zustand: Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library copy with stamps and stickers. The pages are lightly tanned. The copy shows minor external wear, but is in otherwise clean condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, privately printed hardcover, quarter-bound in dark blue cloth with blue boards, is in VERY GOOD condition, having some fading to top front and back covers; some light rubbing/scuffing to surfaces of covers; some normal age-toning to endpapers and pages. Originally published with uncut pages and some pages still uncut by former owner; old bookseller's penciled price at top right corner of first free endpaper. One illustration: a b&w photograph of John J. Carty as frontispiece. Includes two appendices: one a list of Carty's U. S. patents, and the other, a bibliography of his writings. Index. A biography of John J. Carty, an American electrical engineer, and developer of the first transcontinental telephone line. Scarce. Biography. Engineering and science. United States. History. DB.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. xvii, 244pp+ index. Very good hardback in a lightly chipped jacket that is sunned on the spine with a couple of inches of loss at the foot and a closed tear to the front panel.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good copy in blue paper covered boards with cloth spine. Shelf wear, dust staining to top edge of page block.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Front hinge repaired. Name on front fly leaf. Bottom of spine and bottom corners are bumped. Top of spine is lightly rubbed. Covers are lightly scratched on surfaces. 280 pages with index plus three illustrations.

hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). Frontis. xvi + 28o pages, 8vo, blue cloth-backed boards; lightly rubbed at spine ends. New York: Privately Printed, 1932. Internally fine, a very good(+) copy.

FIRST. nFINE. Blue cloth boards. Gold titling. First Edition - colophon on copyright page. Rare high grade copy. Internally tight and in FINE condition. Rare pictures of early phone designs. An important book for the historian of the telephone. [B67].

Frontispiece portrait. xvi, 280 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contains a bibliography of his works at the back. Carty was the Chief Engineer of American Telephone and Telegraph Company from 1907 to 1919, he invented numerous pieces important to telephony and he was one of the major powers behind transcontinental telephony and wireless transmissions. He is also known as the "Father of the Japanese Telephone System." The Japanese Telephone System did not have its first exchange until 1890 and it was set up by Ren Sawai and Dr. S. Oi who were instructed by Carty, therefore the appelation. Original blue cloth-backed boards. Fine in original tattered glassine Frontispiece portrait. xvi, 280 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.…

First edition. First edition. Frontispiece portrait. 1 vols. 8vo. Contains a bibliography of his works at the back. Carty was the Chief Engineer of American Telephone and Telegraph Company from 1907 to 1919, he invented numerous pieces important to telephony and he was one of the major powers behind transcontinental telephony and wireless transmissions. He is also known as the "Father of the Japanese Telephone System." The Japanese Telephone System did not have its first exchange until 1890 and it was set up by Ren Sawai and Dr. S. Oi who were instructed by Carty, therefore the appelation. Original blue cloth-backed boards. Some tearing along inner hinges, else a very good copy of this important biography of one of the founders and developers of the telephone Frontispiece portrait. 1 vols. 8vo.…