WILDE, HENRY.

On the Evidence afforded by Bode's Law of a permanent Contraction of the Radii Vectores of the Planetary Orbits.

Manchester, 1895. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from: "Memoirs and Proceedings of the manchester Literary and Philosophical Society", Volume Nine, Fourth series. With the authors presentation inscription to top of first page: "With the Author's Compliments". Lacking backwrapper. Internally fine and clean. Pp. 95-107.

Offprint with the author's presentation inscription.

Henry Wilde, a wealthy individual from Manchester, England who used his self-made fortune to indulge his interest in electrical engineering. He invented the dynamo-electric machine, or self-energising dynamo, published in 1866. The machine was considered remarkable at the time, especially since Wilde was fond of spectacular demonstrations, such as the ability of his machine to cause iron bars to melt.

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