The Properties of the Silica : An Introduction to the Properties of Substances in the Solid Non-Conducting State

New York: The Chemical Catalog Company, Inc., 1927. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. A square, reasonably tight copy. Stamped "WITHDRAWN" on the endpapers. Text pages are unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with figures. Tables. Graphs. Footnotes/bibliographical references. Index and Glossary. Bound in the original dark blue cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. Arthur H. Heuer has called this book "demonstrably the first truly modern treatise in ceramics." It's author, the physical chemist Robert Browning Sosman, received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907, at the age of 26. By 1908 he had joined the Geo-Physical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. Sosman worked at the Geo-Physical Laboratory for 20 years, serving 8 years as Assistant Director. During World War I, his contributions there were instrumental in establishing America's capacity for manufacturing optical glass. In 1928 he left to join the United States Steel Corporation as Assistant Director of Research. Following his retirement from U.S. Steel in 1947, he became visiting professor of Ceramics at Rutgers University. Dr. Sosman was a past president of the American Ceramic Society. In his honor, the Society established The Robert B. Sosman Award, "the highest recognition of scientific accomplishment given by the Basic Science Division. in recognition of outstanding achievement in basic science of an area that results in a significant impact to the field of ceramics.". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No jacket. 8vo. 856pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…