B chapter.indd - Charles Babbage Institute - University of Minnesota

Erwin Tomash Library
Barker, John Barlow, Fred
Binding: original paper wrappers
Pagination: pp. 231–232
Size: 268x200 mm
This is a very early paper by two of the three Nobel
laureates who developed the transistor. The first account
of the invention of the semiconductor was by means
of a letter, from the same authors, (q.v.) to this journal
(“Nature of the forward current in germanium point
contacts,” The Physical Review, Vol. 74, No. 2, July 15,
1948, pp. 231–232). See also entries for Shockley.
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B 90
Barker, John
The measurer’s guide enlarg’d: or, the whole art of
measuring made short, plain and easy. Containing
full directions how to measure 1. Any plain superfices.
2. All sorts of solids; with particular instructions for
measuring of timber, &c. 3. All sorts of artificers work,
viz. carpenters, joyners, plaisterers, painters, paviors,
glasiers, bricklayers, sawyers, masons, earthwork. 4.
The art of gauging: being of singular use to ingineers,
gentlemen, artificers, and others.
Year: 1718
Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Samuel Ballard
Edition: 2nd
B 90
Language: English
Binding: contemporary leather gilt; gilt compartmented spine
Pagination: pp. [12], 204
Collation: A–B 6 B–S 6
Size: 152x87 mm
As is common in many of these books, the author
indicates in the introduction that:
These sheets were composed for my own private
Use, Thirty Years since, I not in the least intending
to Publish them, but at the Importunities of some
Friends, not without Reluctancy, I, agreed to have
them Printed…
This is a general book on measurement for carpenters,
masons, timber merchants, etc.
Illustrations available:
Title page
B 91
Barlow, Fred (1888–1963)
Mental prodigies. An enquiry into the faculties of
arithmetical, chess and musical prodigies, famous
memorizers, precocious children and the like, with
numerous examples of “lightning” calculations and
mental magic.
Year: 1952
Place: New York
Publisher: Philosophical Library
Edition: 1st (U.S.)
Language: English
Binding: original cloth boards; with dust jacket
Pagination: pp. 256
Size: 183x126 mm
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