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This is a first edition in English of Heinrich Hertz's collected papers on electromagnetic waves

 

Hertz¡¯s scientific papers were translated into English by Professor D. E. Jones, and published in three volumes.

1. Electric Waves (1893): it is researches on the propagation of Electric Action with Finite Velocity through space.  Now day, it costs around $4200 to purchase this first edition book.

2. Miscellaneous Papers (1896)

3. Principles of Mechanics (1899)

The preface contributed to the first of these by Lord Kelvin, and the introductions to the second and third by Professors P. E. A. Lenard and Helmholtz, Contain many biographical details, together with statements of the scope and significance of his investigations.