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Offered is the Very Good++ half-leather, marbled board bound entire volume 136 (Poggendorff's) Annalen der Physik und Chemie. Hittorf's paper is on pages 1-31 continued on 197-234 with two fold out plates in the rear. The current copy withdrawn from King's College Library with their stamps, bookplate front paste-down, small stamp verso of title page. No other markings. The text and plates are Fine. This report by Hittorf describes his investigations of the electrical discharge phenomena in a gas containing tube. His model, "The Hittorf Tube" led directly to William Crooke's work and the "Crooke's Tube", a glass tube with rarefied gas which was a critical step in the history of cathode ray tube design and development. Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824-1914) was a physicist who first computed the electricity carrying capacity of charged atoms and molecules. He formulated ion transport numbers and the first method for their measurements. He was instrumental in the discovery of cathode rays and, as reported in this paper, conducted valuable studies concerning electric phenomena in vacuum tubes.

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