Stine, Wilbur Morris

The Popular Science News and Boston Journal of Chemistry: Devoted to Science of Home-Life, the Arts, Agriculture, and Medicine [vol. 23, nos. 1-12] [provenance: Wilbur Morris Stine]

Boston: Popular Science News Co., 1889. Hardcover. Editors: Austin P. Nichols and W.J. Rolfe. viii, 190 p.: illustrations; 31 cm. Contemporary half polished calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment and volume number and year in fourth compartment. Marbled paper over boards. First 8 pages printed on pink paper. Includes index, prospectus for 1890, and publisher's advertisements for related periodicals. Inscription on front free endpaper: "W.M. Stine 5-15-92." "0728" stamped at lower edge of title page. "Storage" stamped in red on fixed endpapers. Former owner Wilbur Morris Stine (1863-1934) was the author of "Experimental Proof of the Existence of the Ether" in the first issue in the volume. He received from Dickinson College his Master of Science degree in 1886 and his Doctor of Science degree in 1893, and from Ohio University a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1893. He taught physics and engineering at Ohio University from 1886 to 1893; he was professor of electricity and electrical engineering at Armour Institute from 1893 to 1898 and professor of engineering at Swarthmore College from 1898 to 1906. In addition to being very active in the field of electrical engineering, he also published poetry and fiction. In Very Good Condition: leather is rubbed; front board is scraped; pages are clean and tight. Very Good. Item #004144

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