Ch-Ed GUILLAUME – L’Invar et l’Elinvar
A republication of the 1922 Nobel Conference paper, plus an appreciation of Guillaume by Adrien Jaquerod made at the time of Guillaume’s death in 1938.
£20.00
Red cloth board, tipped in colour portrait frontis, 48 pages, including a bibliography of all the publications by Guillaume. Issued by the Société Suisse de Chronométrie on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Charles-Edouard Guillaume Foundation. Switzerland, 1974.
Guillaume was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service rendered to precision measurements by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys. The son of a watchmaker, he also took an interest in the compensation of balances used in watches and chronometers. Guillaume developed a slight variation of the invar alloy (elinvar) which had a negative quadratic coefficient of expansion, the purpose of which was to eliminate the problem of ‘middle temperature’ error.
This copy once in the collection of Beresford Hutchinson and sold by Jill Hadfield as part of his library, with its identification bookmark.
With later owner’s name on the endpaper, in pencil. Otherwise almost as new.
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Red cloth board, tipped in colour portrait frontis, 48 pages, including a bibliography of all the publications by Guillaume. Issued by the Société Suisse de Chronométrie on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Charles-Edouard Guillaume Foundation. Switzerland, 1974.
Guillaume was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service rendered to precision measurements by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys. The son of a watchmaker, he also took an interest in the compensation of balances used in watches and chronometers. Guillaume developed a slight variation of the invar alloy (elinvar) which had a negative quadratic coefficient of expansion, the purpose of which was to eliminate the problem of ‘middle temperature’ error.
This copy once in the collection of Beresford Hutchinson and sold by Jill Hadfield as part of his library, with its identification bookmark.
With later owner’s name on the endpaper, in pencil. Otherwise almost as new.
