"Feasibility of Establishing a Light-wave as the Ultimate Standard of Length" AND "The Law of Thermal Radiation" (Ferrel), and others. In: American Journal of Science.

MICHELSON, A.A. And E.W. Morley; AND William Ferrel, and many others. "Feasibility of Establishing a Light-wave as the Ultimate Standard of Length" AND "The Law of Thermal Radiation" (Ferrel), and others. The American Journal of Science, 3rd series, vol 38 (whole number 138, nos. 223-228), July-December 1889. New Haven, Connecticut, J.D & E.S. Dana, 1889. viii, 512pp, 12 plates. Half-calf and boards, with a good deal of rubbing to the spine edges and surface, as well as the corner. Provenance: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, from the U.S. Patent Office (the first owner), with their bookplate. GOOD copy, only. [++] MICHELSON, A.A. And E.W. Morley, "Feasibility of Establishing a Light-wave as the Ultimate Standard of Length." "Michelson accepted an offer in 1889 to move to the new Clark University at Worcester, Massachusetts. Concurrently he began to carry out a monumental metrological project that he and Morley had envisioned to determine experimentally the length of the international meter bar at Sèvres in terms of wavelengths of cadmium light. Adapting his refractometer as a comparator for lengths that could be reduced through spectroscopy and interferometric techniques to nonmaterial standards of length, Michelson found in 1892 1893 that the Paris meter bar was equal to 1,553,163.5 wavelengths of the red cadmium line. So elegant were the success and precision of this project that Michelson became internationally famous. In 1893 Michelson moved to the new University of Chicago to head its department of physics. There he began to develop his interests in astrophysical spectroscopy. Diffraction gratings, a new harmonic analyzer, and the echelon spectroscope, as well as a large-scale vertical interferometer, were designed by and built for Michelson around the turn of the century."--Complete DSB online. [++] FERREL, William. "The Law of Thermal Radiation" pp 3-28. Ferrel was a remarkable pioneer in the new field of mathematical meteorology. "After Laplace, Ferrel was the chief founder of the subject now known as geophysical fluid dynamics. He gave the first general formulation of the equations of motion for a body moving with respect to the rotating earth and drew from them the consequences for atmospheric and oceanic circulation. He contributed to meteorological and tidal theory and to the problem of earth wobble (changes in the axis and speed of the earth s rotation)."--Complete DSB online. He was an "American meteorologist known for his description of the deflection of air currents on the rotating Earth. Ferrel did research on tides, currents, and storms and invented a machine to predict tidal maxima and minima. He wrote Meteorological Researches, 3 vol. (1877 82), Popular Essays on the Movements of the Atmosphere (1882), Temperature of the Atmosphere and the Earth s Surface (1884), Recent Advances in Meteorology (1886), and A Popular Treatise on the Winds (1889). "--Ency Britannica "The last ten years-of Ferret's life were years of great productiveness in the development of his views on meteorology. his minor works were also important, such as his " Psychrometric Formulae and Tables," his "Barometric Hypsometry " and the allied " Method of Reduction to Sea-level," his studies on the "Arago-Davy Actiuometer " and on the " Law of Thermal Radiation." [This paper.]--Cleveland Abbe, "Memoir of William Ferrel, 1817-1892", National Academy of Sciences, 1892. [++] ALSO in this volume: S.P. Langley, "Observation of Sudden Phenomena", pp 93-99; O.C. Marsh, "Discovery of a gigantic Horned Dinosauria from the Cretaceous" pp 173-7; J. Trowbridge, "Radiant Energy and Electrical Energy", pp 217-219. And many other contributions.…