general account development methods using von smyth (22 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 152 pages. 8.30x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Octavo, not illustrated, pp 144, corners a little dog-eared,otherwise clean internally, paperback, the covers slightly age-toned and a little worn.

First British edition. IV, 144 pp. Original printed wrappers, wrappers foxed.

Pamphlet. Zustand: Very Good. Second printing. Very good staple-bound pamphlet in brown wrapper. Some wear and rubbing along the edges of the covers with a bit of scuffing also. Small tear on heel of the spine of cover. Erased penciled numbers on front cover. Page edges are lightly browned along edges. Penciled in lines and notes on rear free endpaper. 182 pages with 5 appendices (1. Methods of observing fast particles from nuclear reactions, 2. the units of mass, charge and energy, 3. Delayed neutrons from Uraniun fission, 4. The first self-sustaining chain-reacting pile, 5. Sample list of reports). Has sections on metallurgical project at Chicago, Plutonium production problem in February 1943, Plutonium problem January 1943-June 1945, discussions of separation of isotopes, diffusion separation, electromagnetic separation.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. An important early American public account of nuclear energy. A lot of technical level, although some topics are understandably underplayed. pp.144. Diags. Top strip of front cover missing; owner's name?

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. First printing. First general "trade" printing of the seminal public report on the Manhattan Project, #4 in Coleman's "The Smyth Report: A Descriptive Check List." Hardcover, tan cloth, very good+ condition, text clean, lacking dust jacket. Tiny price mark to upper corner of front endpaper.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. First English Edition of the official account of the development of the atomic bombs. Written at the request of Major General L. R. Groves, United States Army, Publication authorized August 1945. Original printed wrappers, short tears to head of upper joints, light creasing, light surface soiling. Marking to first and final printed pages. Contemporary ink ownership inscription to inside front cover. Pages: iv, 143pp, [1]. Complete. Size: 24.5cm by 15.2cm.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. First UK Edition. Some fading. Small chip to top of spine.

IV, 143pp. Orig. printed wrappers. First British edition. - PMM 422e. - Wrappers somewhat browned along the edges. Name on title-page. Else a very good copy.

Wraps. Zustand: Good. First Printed Edition. vii, [1],182, [4] pages, and rear cover. Wraps. Footnotes. Appendices, Cover somewhat stained and scuffed, small creases. Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth (May 1, 1898 - September 11, 1986) was an American physicist and diplomat. He played key roles in the development of nuclear energy, in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency. During WWII he was a member of the National Defense Research Committee's Uranium Committee and a consultant on the Manhattan Project. He wrote the Manhattan Project's first public official history, which came to be known as the Smyth Report. Smyth advocated for a comprehensive report to be released to the public following the weapon's use. Vannevar Bush, who oversaw the NDRC, agreed, and selected Smyth to write the report on the recommendation of James Conant. Groves granted Smyth unlimited access, waiving his insistence on compartmentalization. First printed edition (preceded only by typed and mimeographed editions). The report was released to the public on August 12, 1945, just days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9. Smyth was commissioned to write the report by Major General Leslie R. Groves, Jr., the director of the Manhattan Project. The Smyth Report was the first official account of the development of the atomic bombs and the basic physical processes behind them. It also served as an indication as to what information was declassified; anything in the Smyth Report could be discussed openly. For this reason, the Smyth Report focused heavily on information, such as basic nuclear physics, which was either already widely known in the scientific community or easily deducible by a competent scientist, and omitted details about chemistry, metallurgy, and ordnance. The Smyth Report was on The New York Times best-seller list from mid-October 1945 until January 1946 and was translated into 40+ languages.

paperback. 8vo, original printed wrappers. London, 1945. BOUND WITH: Atomic Energy Act, 1946. 9 & 10 Geo. 6. Ch. stapled. (London, 1946.) AND WITH : U.N. Scientific & Technical Aspects of the Control of Atomic Energy. 8vo, original wrappers. Lake Succes, N.Y., 1946. AND WITH: (U.S. Gov't) Radar. A Report on Science at War. 8vo, original printed wrappers. London, 1945. 4 works string-bound together under one modern paper wrapper. An important collection of official documents, including a reprint of the famous Smyth Report. The report on "Radar" is especially interesting today for containing a sketch of the early history of radar and of wartime radar development in the U.S. The list of authors who collaborated in its preparation includes Frederic Jolliot-Curie of France, Sir George Paget Thomson of the United Kingdom, J. Robert Oppenheimer of the United States among other leading scientists.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 182pp. Printed brown wrappers. One page corner creased, a little foxing in the text, else near fine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Foreword by Major General L. R. Groves. vii, 182 pages. Creasing to cover at top of spine. Small chip at base of front cover. Size: 230mm Tall, 8vo. Book.

Zustand: About fine. First edtion for public distribution, following advance coy printed for press review. 15 x 23 mm (6 x 9 inches); viii, 183 pages. Printed wraps. Owner's inscription in pencil on front wrap, and again on first blank. Shelf mark on spine. Else crisp, tight, unread copy in near fine condition. Provenance: Dr. Lawrence Norton Morscher (1910-1992). The first public account of the Manhattan Project, which commissioned a stellar collection of scientists and engineers under the direction of J. Robert Oppenheimer to produce an atomic weapon during the Second World War.

Smyth, Henry DeWolf (b. 1898). A general account of the development of methods of using atomic energy for military purposes under the auspices of the United States government 1940-1945. Washington, D.C.: Superintendent of Documents, 1945. iii-vii, [1], 182pp. 230 x 150 mm. Original tan wrappers, slight wear. Fine. Bookplate. First Published Edition, First Printing, with the date "1945" in the colophon on the last printed page. Printing and the Mind of Man 422e. The Smyth report contained a full account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 by the Manhattan Project, which culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb. The printed version of the "Smyth Report" was preceded by an advance lithoprint issue, of which 1000 copies were printed, and a secret mimeographed issue of which no copies except for Smyth's master copy remain extant. Coleman, "The 'Smyth Report': A descriptive checklist," Princeton University Library Chronicle 37 (1976), pp. 204-218. Smyth, "The 'Smyth Report,'" Princeton University Library Chronicle 37 (1976), pp. 173-189. .

[10x7 inches] Sm. 4to. [193] pp. With page IV-7 printed upside down [IV-8 positioned correctly]. [After the unpaged front matter, which is printed on one side of the leaf, each chapter has separate pagination and the pages of the Appendices are numbered A1-1 and so forth."] Original cream-colored textured card-wrappers, lithoprinted on the front "Released for Publication on _________", side-stapled [2]; corners curled, variously soiled (representative of 'normal' exposure). Signature of M.J. Coffee. Good. / PROVENANCE: "M.J. Coffee / Rm 213 Chemistry Bldg. / Ohio State Univ. / Columbus, Ohio" With an inscribed index card, "This is my copy of the A-Bomb record sent to all the people who were instrumental in perfecting the bomb used on Hiroshima + Nagasaki. It was sent out after the war to people who worked for the Manhattan Project. I was at the Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio." FIRST OFFICIAL PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE MANHATTAN PROJECT :: THE CREATION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB. LIMITED EDITION of about 1,000 copies. [Jones]. First official government statement printed and released [on August 12, 1945] solely for persons related to the project and the press, being the first printed account of the development of the Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb, issued just six days after the bombing of Hiroshima. The lithoprinting was done in the Adjunct General's Office in the Pentagon. / Coleman describes the conditions by which this book was put together, "It is apparent that gathering the leaves for binding was done in haste under the pressure of tight security precautions. Pages are lacking or repeated in several copies that have been seen." :: p. 206. This copy is complete. / "Researchers should note that correspondence dealing with the writing and editing of the Smyth Report is mainly located in Series V, Smyth Report. This correspondence appears to have been filed by Smyth with related materials (i.e., notes, draft manuscripts, early printings) for several reasons. His primary intent appears to have been continuity; the correspondence discussing his work on the Smyth Report often refers to specific drafts, now also filed in Series V. These letters were also often classified "Secret" and "Top Secret" along with his various manuscript versions from 1944 through 1945. These materials remained together over the years while in Smyth's possession, periodically undergoing review for declassification as a group by the U.S. AEC. For these reasons, as well as the fact that Smyth meticulously arranged Series V himself, the correspondence dealing with the Smyth Report has been maintained in its original order and assigned to this separate series. Cross referencing has been done for correspondents who appear in Series V, Smyth Report; the existence of letters in Series V has been noted under the appropriate correspondent's name in the Series I section of the container list." :: American Philosophical Society, Henry DeWolf Smyth Papers. / In addition, page VI-12 contains the sometimes missing "secret" classified content dealing with plutonium production rates. This copy contains both the entire section V and the plutonian production rates from VI-12. / "The story of the development of the atomic bomb by the combined efforts of many groups in the United States is a fascinating but highly technical account of an enormous enterprise. Obviously military security prevents this story from being told in full at this time. However, there is no reason why the administrative history of the Atomic Bomb project and the basic scientific knowledge on which the several developments were based should not be available now to the general public. To this end this account by Professor H. D. Smyth is presented./ All pertinent scientific information which can be released to the public at this time without violating the needs of national security is contained in this volume . . ." :: Major General L.R. Groves (foreword). / "There was published on 12 August 1945 (six days after the atomic attack on Hiroshima) the remarkably full and candid account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 by the American-directed by internationally-recruited team of physicists, under the code name of 'Manhattan District', which culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb. . . Compiled by Professor Smyth of Princeton, a consultant to the 'Manhattan District' project at Los Alamos, whose commandant General L.R. Groves provided the foreword, 'the Smyth Report', as it is familiarly known, was published at one dollar by the U.S. Superintendent of Documents" :: Printing and the Mind of Man, 422e. / Smyth (1898-1986), Professor of Physics at Princeton, served as a consultant to the Manhattan Project from 1943-45. After the war he was appointed Commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, from 1949-54. / REFERENCES: Coleman 3 [and earliest obtainable issue], see: Earle E. Coleman, "The 'Smyth Report': A descriptive checklist," Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 37 (1976), pp. 204-218; Smyth, "The 'Smyth Report,'" Princeton University Library Chronicle, 37 (1976), pp. 173-189. Jones, Vincent, Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb. Washington, DC: United States Army Center of Military History, 1985, pp. 560-1.

FISKE, Milan D. (illustrator). First Edition. for Military Purposes Under the Auspices of the United States Government 1940 -1945 . Written at the request of Major General L.R. Groves United States Army. [Washington D.C.: printed at the Pentagon, 1945]. First edition, advance publication copy for press use. One of 1,000 copies. Cyclostyled pages, stapled (10 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 264 x 200 mm.). [8], 19, [1, blank], 10, 7, [1, blank], 15, [1, blank], 9, [1, blank], 14, 15, [1, blank],17, [1, blank], 13, [1, blank], 10, 13, [1, blank], 12, 3, [1, blank], 6, 2, 3, [1, blank], 5, [1, blank], 1, [1, blank] pp. With intertextual diagrams and "Released for Publication on ____" lithographed on lower inner corner of front wrapper. With duplicate extra leaf "x-5." Complete. Original textured cream wrappers stapled in three places along inner edge. Wrappers slightly soiled. Spine with a small dampstain. Internally very clean. About fine. This is the first edition of the first description of the technical development of the atomic bomb, published on 12 August 1945, just six days after Hiroshima. Until the publication of A General Account research and development had been undertaken in conditions of the utmost secrecy and the report was also prepared in secret. However, the British and American governments decided that the widest dissemination of this "remarkably full and candid account" (PMM) was in the public interest, and this first edition was distributed to journalists for radio use on 11 August and for press use the next day. This first edition with a Foreword by L.R. Groves is described as a "lithoprint" and was printed in the Adjutant General's office in the Pentagon from a typescript. "All pertinent scientific information which can be released to the public at this time without violating the needs of national security is contained in this volume. No requests for additional information should be made to private persons or organizations associated directly or indirectly with the project. Persons disclosing or securing additional information by any means whatsoever without authorization are subject to severe penalties under the Espionage Act" (Groves, from the Foreword). Although it does not state anywhere, this copy belonged to American physicist and director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Norris Bradbury. In July 1944, Bradbury a naval commander, transferred to Los Alamos to work on the Manhattan Project. In 1945, Oppenheimer resigned as director of Los Alamos and recommended Bradbury for his replacement. Norman Library 1962. Printing and the Mind of Man, 422e. HBS 67805. $5,000.

London, His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1945. Orig. printed wrappers, wrappers somewhat browned. IV,144 pp. First edition printed in England - the book was first published in Washington in August 1945.

First Edition. Publisher's printed wrappers. Octavo, 182pp. The first edition authorized for public distribution, preceded by a top secret mimeographed version in which copies were destroyed after read by recipients, and about 1000 lithoprinted copies for less secretive distribution (these are scarce but still readily available). Some general marks, rubbing and light creasing, else very good.

First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's printed wrappers; vii, 182pp. Ink ownership signature ("David Caliri") to front wrapper; corners bumped, with minor external wear; still a tight, Very Good to Near Fine copy. First published edition of this Twentieth Century milestone, following a tiny mimeographed issue that appeared a few weeks earlier for advance distribution to the press and the scientific community. Includes a foreword by General Leslie Groves, Director of the Manhattan Project. Generally regarded as the first publicly-issued work on the subject of nuclear warfare, described by Carter and Muir as a "remarkably full and candid account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 . which culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb (PMM 422e).

Zustand: Fine condition. Mimeographed (illustrator). Mimeographed. 178 p. Advence printing, released to the public on 12 August 1945, six days after the bombing of Hiroshima, and containing a full account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 by the Manhattan Project that culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb. The first version of the report was a mimeographed copy (identifiable by the word "secret" stamped on every page), hand-delivered by military messenger, which the recipients were required to read immediately and return to the waiting messenger. These mimeographed copies were apparently destroyed for security reasons, as no copies, either whole or in parts, have been recorded in existence except for Smyth's master copy housed at Princeton. 1,000 copies were then lithoprinted from typescript in the facility for reproducing secret documents in the Adjutant General's Office in the Pentagon. Smyth, in his article describing the genesis of his report, appears to state that all copies of the first lithoprint version were distributed to the press in press packets on 11 August. [With:] A War Department press release broadside announcing the release of the report. One page, 265 x 201 mm. In the release, the War Department notes that "nothing in this report discloses the necessary military sercrets as to the manufacture or production of the weapon. It does provide a summary of generally known scientific facts and gives an account of the history of the work, and of the role played in the development by different scientific and industrial organizations." "Because of the unusually complicated publication history of this work, it would appear that the presence of the mimeographed press-release is necessary to determine the first printing" (Norman 1962). PMM 422e. Provenance: William Bentinck Smith (given to); Harvard College Library (gift label on folding case, Houghton Library shelf label on back inside wrapper).

Approx. 200, wraps, lithoprinted version, figures, appendices, some soil to covers, pg. VI-12 is blank (xerox copy of missing text laid in). Book is held together with two staples; bottom staple has come loose from front cover through approximately chapter II. There are double copies of five pages: the preface, and pages I-9/I-10, II-3/II-4, IV-9/IV-10, and X-9/X-10. This lithoprint edition was printed and distributed in August 1945 just after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There were about 1, 000 copies printed, and they were distributed to the leaders of the Manhattan Project and to reporters covering the story. Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth (May 1, 1898 - September 11, 1986) was an American physicist and diplomat. He wrote the Manhattan Project's first public official history, which came to be known as the Smyth Report. Smyth advocated for a comprehensive report to be released to the public following the weapon's use. The report was released to the public on August 12, 1945, just days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9. Smyth was commissioned to write the report by Major General Leslie R. Groves, Jr., the director of the Manhattan Project. The Smyth Report was the first official account of the development of the atomic bombs and the basic physical processes behind them. It also served as an indication as to what information was declassified; anything in the Smyth Report could be discussed openly. For this reason, the Smyth Report focused heavily on information, such as basic nuclear physics, which was either already widely known in the scientific community or easily deducible by a competent scientist, and omitted details about chemistry, metallurgy, and ordnance. The Smyth Report was on The New York Times best-seller list from mid-October 1945 until January 1946 and was translated into 40+ languages. as is (page VI-12 is blank; xerox of missing text laid in).