walter cady (15 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Cady, Walter Harrison (illustrator). Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Good. Cady, Walter Harrison (illustrator). Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Rather more interesting than previous years' issues, as includes much technical information on equipment and standardisation as well as Institute matters and an alphabetical list of members. 30 pages of period advertisements. All in good internal order. Paper covers rather worn and marked. 8vo. 320pp + xxx ads.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. revised edition. 405 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. [1st edition] ; 2nd printing ; 159 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm ; ISBN 9781580110839, 1580110835 OCLC 46604642 ; LCCN 00111620 ; LC SB411 .R6526 2001 ; Dewey 635.933734 ; ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; "Author Field Roebuck is a lifelong gardener and avid rosarian based in Dallas, Texas. Field contributes regularly to The Dallas Morning News, The Gardener, and Neil Sperry's Gardens. His photographs have appeared in many garden books." ; Foolproof Guide to Growing Roses will appeal to anyone who wants roses in their garden. It is ideal for gardeners who have been afraid to grow roses as well as for those who already grow these lovely flowers and want to learn more about them. Unlike many competitive books that originate in Great Britain and do not address North American growing issues, this book covers the effects of local climate on roses. Readers will learn how to care for the plants easily and efficiently, prepare and maintain the soil for optimal plant health, control pests and disease with environmentally friendly techniques, and prune every type of rose ; Through text and lavishly illustrated step-by-step instructions, readers learn how to select roses that are reliable in their climate. They also learn how to care for the plants easily and efficiently, how to control pests and diseases with environmentally friendly techniques, and how to prune every type of rose. - Comprehensive descriptions of all rose classes.- Descriptions of 80 rose varieties and cultivars.- More than 280 beautiful color photographs and 34 watercolor paintings.- Suggestions for companion plants that bring out the best in roses while also helping to protect them from various pests.- Detailed discussion of soil science as it pertains to rose health.- Two cross-referenced indexes that cover plants and topics. ; Contents: Types and uses of roses -- Healthy garden soil -- Selecting and planting roses -- Companions for roses-- rose culture -- Controlling insect pests and disease -- Propagating your roses --- A gallery of easy-care roses ; FINE. Book.

Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1946; New York; olive cloth covered boards with with gold titles; edges and corners are worn; rubbing; Previous owner's name on bottom page edges and ffep; Interior is clean and unmarked; 8vo, 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall; 806 pages.

Zustand: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, June 1 (SALE item)* first edition; 44 pp., original paper wrappers, spine worn, covers slightly chipped, book plate inside the front cover, else good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Photographs, Diagrams, Charts (illustrator). 1st Edition. 806 Pp. Olive Cloth, Gilt. First Edition Stated On Title Page. Scholarly Work With Historical Details Throughout. Near New, No Marks,Gilt Brilliant, Covers Immaculate, Near New. Walter Guyton Cady (1874 -1974) Was A Noted American Physicist And Electrical Engineer. He Was A Pioneer In Piezoelectricity, And In 1921 Developed The First Quartz Crystal Oscillator. Cady Was Born In Providence, Rhode Island, Graduated From Brown University In 1895, And Studied 1897-1900 At The University Of Berlin, Receiving His Ph.D. In Physics In 1900. (From 1895 To 1897 He Was Also Instructor In Mathematics At Brown.) He Was A Magnetic Observer From 1900 To 1902 With The Coast And Geodetic Survey, And From 1902 To 1946 He Was A Professor Of Physics At Wesleyan University, Where His Principal Interests Included Electrical Discharges In Gases, Piezoelectricity, Ultrasound, Piezoelectric Resonators And Oscillators, And Crystal Devices. Before World War I, Cady Investigated Arc Discharges And Radio Detectors, But During The War Became Interested In Crystals As He Worked With General Electric Company's Research Laboratory, Columbia University, And The Naval Experimental Station In New London, Connecticut, On Using High-Frequency Sound Generated By Piezoelectricity To Detect Submarines. His Early Experiments Employed Rochelle Salt Crystals As Transducers. After Noticing That A Quartz Crystal Connected To A Variable-Frequency Electronic Oscillator Would Vibrate Strongly At A Very Specific Frequency, But That At Other Frequencies It Would Not Vibrate At All, He Had The Insight To Apply Crystal Oscillators To Radio Frequency Applications. In 1921 Cady Designed The First Circuit To Control Frequencies Based On Quartz Crystal Resonator, And Received Two Fundamental Patents On Resonators And Their Applications To Radio In 1923. Cady Quickly Realized That Such Circuits Could Be Used As Frequency Standards, In 1922 Published An Ire Paper On This Application, And In 1923 Made The First Direct International Comparison Of Frequency Standards By Comparing His Quartz Resonators With Frequency Standards In Italy, France, England, And The United States. Cady Was President Of The Institute Of Radio Engineers In 1932. During World War Ii, Cady Again Worked On Military Applications Of Piezoelectricity, Including Trainers For Radar Operators That Used Piezoelectric Transducers In Liquid Tanks To Generate Realistic Radar Returns. He Retired To Pasadena, California, In 1951, Where He Was A Research Associate At Caltech. He Returned To Providence In 1963. After Retirement He Consulted For Industry And The Federal Government. Cady Held More Than 50 Patents, And Was The Inventor Of The Crystal-Controlled Oscillator, The Highly Selective Narrow-Band Crystal Filter, One Of The Principal Theorists Of The Ferroelectricity In Crystals, And A Historian Of The Science Of Piezoelectric Crystals. He Won The 1928 Ieee Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, And In 1936 Was The Second American To Receive The Duddell Medal And Prize Of The Physical Society Of London. He Received Honorary Degrees From Brown University In 1938, And From Wesleyan In 1958. His Papers Are Archived At The Smithsonian Institution And The Rhode Island Historical Society.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First. Hardcover, 806pp, edges of pages some foxing, otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Ex-library. Library labels, stamps and markings. ; Second impression. xxiii, [1], 806 pages. Green cloth boards with dark green panel on spine. Gilt lettering and rule on spine. Page dimensions: 227 x 150mm. Illustrated. Series: International Series in Pure and Applied Physics. Walter Guyton Cady was Professor of Physics at Wesleyan University. Chapters include: Crystallography; Vibrations of Crystals; The Piezoelectric Resonator; The Piezo Oscillator; Rochelle Salt: History, General Properties, and Technique; Internal-field Theory of Siegnette-electric Crystals; Pyroelectricity; Ferromagnetism.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex-library hardback without dust jacket, usual library stamps & markings. 1st edition published 1946 by McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. Piezoelectricity- an introduction to the Theory & applications of Electromechanical Phenomena in Crystals, this book is part of the International Series in Pure & Applied Physics, 806pp, 150+ b&w fig in text & 36 tables. Some shelf wear & marks to boards, corners lightly bumped otherwise a good, clean copy. Weighing just over 1kg will ship overseas for extra postage, ready for immediate despatch from UK. 9E*.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 806 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with occasional illustrations and figures throughout. Some pages are wrinkled near the corners. Hinges are cracked but intact. Page edges are darkened and lightly stained. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titles and green accents. Worn around the edges. Lightly scuffed and scratched. 1ST EDITION. SCARCE. VG-/- -. Book.

Zustand: Good. Large format color reproduction print poster 21" x 17". Very Good. Copyright S. T. Shaw.