Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Submarine detection in an alternating magnetic field

Authors

• Whitehead, J. B. 1872-1954
• Grondahl, Lars Olai, 1880-

Other related names

• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

LJS 192
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5833727
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5833727

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Origin

Date

1919

Place

Baltimore?

Summary

Typescript of report on experiments on the use of magnetic coils carried on ships to detect submarines, conducted at The Johns Hopkins University and the Engineering Experiment Station at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, beginning after the entrance of the United States into World War I. The report is followed by appendices on magnets and coils, detecting instruments, amplifiers, speed control, choice of frequency, tests of formulae, electrical balance in the detecting circuit, and the steel hull as a magnet.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. i) and upper cover.
   

Extent

125 leaves : 274 x 206 (232 x 164) mm. bound to 280 x 224 mm

Foliation

Paper, 125; [i-ii], 1-13, [i-ii], 14-22, [i-ii], 23-31, [i-iii], 32, [i], 33-39, [i], 40-42, [i-ii], 43-44, [i-ii], 45-51, [i], 52-60, [i], 61-63, [i-ii], 64-65, [i], 66-67, [i], 68, [i], 69-72, [i], 73-75, [i-ii], 76-81, [i], 82-92, [i], 93, [i], 94, [95-97]; typed foliation on text leaves only, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Original (20th-century) leather; gilt main title on upper cover; marbled endpapers.

Layout

Typed in 29-30 long lines on recto sides only.

Decoration

33 figures, comprising blueprints of technical drawings and tables bound in with the text, and 4 photographs of the ships used in the experiments (mounted on 2 blank pages bound in after f. 42).

Provenance

• Formerly owned by co-author Lars Olai Grondahl (signed L. O. Grondahl, March 1919, front endpaper verso); title page signed by J. B. Whitehead and marked Copy #6, March 1919, in Whitehead's hand.
   
• Sold by Palinurus Antiquarian Books (Elkins Park, Pa.), cat. 30 (1992), no. 66.
   
• Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), Ms. 23.
   
• Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• World War, 1914-1918--Naval operations--Submarine
• Magnetic fields--Research--United States
• Technology

Genres

• Codices
• Blueprints (reprographic copies)
• Photographs
• Reports
• Tables (documents)
• Technical drawings
• Manuscripts, American--20th century
• Manuscripts, Digital

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 22r — Table, f. 22r
• fol. 51r — Table 4, f. 51r
• fol. 53r — Table 5, f. 53r
• fol. 54r — Table 6, f. 54r
• fol. 58r — Table 7, f. 58r