Description

Title:  The History of Wireless Telegraphy 1838-1899. Including some Bare-Wire Proposals for Subaqueous Telegraphs
 
Author:  J. J. [John Joseph] Fahie

Description:  Cloyd Chapman's copy, with his custom bookplate. Second impression. Black cloth. Bit of fraying at head of spine; copy is a somewhat worn appearance; prominent vertical scuff pattern on front cover; spine cocked. Interior is generally clean. More than sixty in-text illustrations. Index. xvii, 325 p.   

A scarce copy with an interesting association. Cloyd M. Chapman (1874-1944) was an assistant in Thomas Edison's private laboratory from 1899 to 1905.

Binding:  Hardcover
Condition:  Good
                                     
Publisher:  Dodd, Mead, and Co.
Place:  New York
Year:  1900

Keywords:  Cloyd Chapman, Thomas Edison, telegraph,