Autograph letter signed to Charles Vincent Walker
by Page, Charles Grafton
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Novato, California, United States
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About This Item
Page performed experimental researches in electricity during the middle part of the nineteenth century, inventing a forerunner of the induction coil, the self-acting circuit breaker and a reciprocating electromagnetic engine. He served as one of the US Patent Office's two chief examiners between 1841 to 1852, resigning in the latter year to establish the American Polytechnic Journal, which he cofounded with J. J. Greenough and the manufacturer and capitalist Charles Fleischmann (1834-97). The present letter introduces Fleischmann, who was traveling to "his native country [Hungary] and various parts of Europe." Page's correspondent, Charles V. Walker, had been involved in telegraphy since the 1840s; in 1848 he sent the first submarine telegraph message from a ship connected by two miles of cable to London Bridge, and in 1876 he served as president of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians. Origins of Cyberspace 179.
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- Bookseller
- Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40782
- Title
- Autograph letter signed to Charles Vincent Walker
- Author
- Page, Charles Grafton
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1845
- Keywords
- autographs ; ; electricity ; American science ; technology ; telegraph
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.
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