First Separate Edition. [1]-24 pages plus 5 plates and original printed wrappers. Folio (9 3/4 x 13 inches). Top page edges uncut, an unread copy. Wrappers have been professionally restored and reattached with missing paper filled in, correcting a common failing of this title. The wrappers are often chipped and/or detached with large pieces missing due to the thin, almost ephemeral nature of the binding. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge number 842. Wrappers. "Michelson was the first American citizen to win the Nobel prize for his 'precision optical instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations conducted therewith'.He was clearly recognized as one of the foremost experimental physicists of the nation." - DSB "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 was awarded to Albert A. Michelson "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid". (Nobel Prize d o t org). Seller Inventory # 22436

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Title: On the Application of Interference Methods ...

Publisher: The Smithsonian Institution, City of Washington

Publication Date: 1892

Binding: Wrappers

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Separate Edition.

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