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American Vacuum Society Collection

The following items are on long term loan to the Jefferson Lab Library:

On Display in the Glass Case:

• "Traitez de l'equilibre des liqueurs, et de la pesanteur de la masse de l'air" by Blaise Pascal (Paris, 1654). Blaise Pascal was a renowned mathematician, known for his contributions in number theory, geometry, and the theory of probability. In this volume Pascal explains his theory on pressure and presents an outline of a hydrostatic system.
• "New experiments and observations touching cold" by Robert Boyle (London, 1683)
• "The philosophical works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq" (London, 1725) Robert Boyle was a chemist and natural philosopher. Not only was he known for his theories regarding experimentation but also for his experimental practices. He developed the vacuum pump and helped to found the Royal Society of London, but is best known for Boyle's Law - the pressure of a confined quantity of gas varies inversely with its volume.
• "Technica curiosa sive mirabilis artis" by Gaspar Schott (Nuremberg, 1687)
  Gaspar Schott was a professor of mathematics. This work popularized the scientific discoveries of Boyle and von Guericke.

Circulating and Reserve Items: (Non-circulating indicated by double asterisk **)

• Baker, E.C. - Sir William Preece F.R.S., 1976, Hutchinson & Co
• Barrett, A.S.D - Progress in vacuum science and technology. Pergamon Press, Ltd, 1959.
• Barrinton, A. E., High Vacuum Engineering. Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1963.
• Barry, Frederick. The physical treatises of Pascal, 1937 Columbia University Press
• Beck, A. H., Handbook of Vacuum Physics, Vol. 1, Part 1: Vacuum Technology as Applied to Continuously Pumped Systems. Pergamon Press, Oxford 1966.
• Beck, A. H., Handbook of Vacuum Physics, Vol. 1, Gases and Vacua, Parts 4, 5 and 6: Units, Gaseous Flow; Vacuum Diffusion Pumps. Pergamon Press, Oxford 1966.
• Beck, A. H.   Handbook of Vacuum Physics, Vol. 2 Parts 2 and 3: Physical Electronics; Thermionic Emission; Secondary Electron Emission.  Pergamon Press, Oxford 1966.
• Beck, A. H. Handbook of Vacuum Physics, Vol. 3: Technology, Part 4: Properties of miscellaneous materials. The MacMillan Co., New York, 1964.
• Behrndt, K.H. Ed. Vacuum Microbalance Techniques, Vol. 3 Proceedings of the 1962 Symposium in L.A. Penum Press New York 1963.
• Berman A. Total Pressure Measurements in Vacuum Technology. Academic Press, Orlando, 1985.
• Brenig W. and Menzel D. Eds. Desorption Induced by Electronic Transitions, DIET II. Springer Series in Surface Sciences 4, Springer Berlin, 1985.<>
• Brombacher W.G. Bibliography and Index on Vacuum and Low Pressure Measurement. N.B.S. Monograph 35, 1961.
• Bruining, H. Physics and applications of secondary electron emission, McGraw Hill, 1954.
• Bunshah, (Ed.) Transactions Vacuum Metallurgy Conference 1962. American Vacuum Society, 1963.
• Callick , E.B. Report on M.I.T. Conference on Physical Electronics, April 1-3, 1948.
• Canby, E.T. A history of electricity, Hawthorne Books, Inc., 1963.
• Carneal, G. - A conqueror of space, Horace Liveright, 1930.
• Carpenter, L.G. - Vacuum technology, American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc., 1970.
• Chambers, A., Fitch, R. and Halliday, B. Basic Vacuum Technology, Adam Hilger, New York, 1989.
• Clark, A. The Chemisorptive Bond. Academic,  New York, 1974.
• Collins, George B. Ed. Microwave Magnetrons, MIT Radiation Lab Series, McGraw-Hill 1948 [NB post-it on page 9; photo of first British 10cm magnetron, which Paul worked on?].
• Conant, J.B.  Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science, Harvard University Press, 1948.
• Albe, E.E. Fournier.  The Life of Sir William Crookes (with a forward by Sir Oliver Lodge),  T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., London, 1923. **
• Dahl, F. Flash of the Cathode Rays.  IOP Publishing Ltd., 1997,
• de Boer, J.H. The Dynamical Character of Adsorption. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1953 Xerox copy.
• De Ward, C.  experience barometrique: les antecedents et ses explications Johns Hopkins University Xerox copy
• Delafoss, J. and Mongodin, G.  Les Caculus de la Technique du Vide Societe Frnacaise des Ingenieurs et Techniciens d Vide Bound copy of Le Vide No. 92, 1961.
• Diels, K. and Jacckel, R. Leybold Vakuum-Taschenbuch (1st edition) Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1958.
• Diels, K. and Jacckel, R.  Leybold Vakuum-Taschenbuch (2nd edition) Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1962.
• Diels, K and Jaeckel R. Leybold Vacuum Handbook.Translated by H. Adam & J. Edwards,  Pergamon, Oxford, 1966. [NB post-it on page 221].
• Duke C.B. and Plummer E.W. Eds. Frontiers in Surface and Interface Science. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2002.
• Duke C.B. Ed. Surface Science. The First Thirty Years. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994. [post-its on pages 137,263,680, 733, 763].
• Dummer, G.W.A. Electronic Inventions and Discoveries, Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997.
• Dunoyer, Louis. Le Vide et ses Applications Presses Universities de France, Paris 1950.
• Dushman, Saul The Production and Measurement of High Vacua.
• Part I- General Electric Review 23,  No. 6, p 493 , July 1920
• Part II-Methods for the Production of Low Pressures General Electric Review 23,  No 7, p 605 , July 1920
• Part III-Methods for the Production of Low Pressures (cont) General Electric Review 23,  No 8 , p 672 , August 1920
• Part IV-Manometers for Low Gas Pressures General Electric Review 23,  No 9 , p731 , September 1920
• Part V-Manometers for Low Gas Pressures (cont) General Electric Review 23,  No 10 , p 847 , October 1920
• Part VI- General Electric Review 24,  No 1 , p 58 , January 1921
• Part VII-Physical Chemical Methods (cont) General Electric Review 24  No 3 , p 244 , March 1921
• Part VIII-Physical Chemical Methods (cont) General Electric Review 24  No 5 , p 436 , May 1921
• Part IX-Physical Chemical Methods General Electric Review 24  No 7 , p 669 , July 1921
• Part X-Theory of Adsorption at Low Pressures and Applications,  General Electric Review 24  No 9 , p 810 , September 1921
• Part XI-Temperature Drop, Slip, and Concentration Drop in Gases at Low Pressures General Electric Review 24  No 10 , p 890, October 1921
• Dushman, S. Scientific Foundation of Vacuum Technique.  John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1949.
• Dushman, S.  Scientific Foundation of Vacuum Technique, 2^nd ed.  J.M. Lafferty, Editor.  John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1962.
• Edelmann, C. Vakuumphysik. Spektrum, Heidelberg 1998.
• Elfun Society. The Steinmetz era: The General Electric Story, 1892- 1923, 1997.
• Eschbch, H.L. Prakticum der Hochvakuum-technik Erzeugung and Messung Niedriger Drucke Akademische Verlagsgesellschraft., Leipzig, 1962.
• Flood E.A. Ed. The Gas-Solid Interface, vols. I and II. Dekker, New York, 1967.
  {Vol I; chapter 13 by H.E. Farnsworth on Atomically Clean Solid Surfaces-Preparation and Evaluation; chapter 14 by J.P. Hobson on Physical Adsorption at Extremely Low Pressures Vol II, chapter 28 by E Alison Flood & J P Hobson on Simple Kinetic Theory, and Accommodation, Reflection and Adsorption of Molecules]
• Florentine Films Production. Empire of the air (video), Florentine Films, 1991.
• Green, G.W.  The Design and Construction of Small Vacuum Systems, Chapman and Hall ltd., 1968. Barnes & Noble.
• Goldmark, P.C. - Maverick inventor, E.P.Dutton & Co., 1973.
• Good R.J. and Stromberg R. Ed. Surface and Colloidal Science; vol.11 Experimental Methods. Plenum, London, 1979. [Chapter by J P Hobson on Methods of Producing Ultra High Vacuum and Measuring Ultralow Pressures].
• Grant, Edward.  Much ado about nothing, Cambridge University Press, 1981
• Gutherie, A. Vacuum Technology.  John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1963.
• Gutherie, A. and Wakerling, R.K. Vacuum Equipment and Techniques, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1949.
• Hablanian, M. H.  High Vacuum Technology, A Practical Guide.  Marcel Dekker, Inc, New York, 1990.
• Hablanian, M.H. High-Vacuum Technology, 2^nd edition, Decker, New York, 1997.
• Hammond, J.W.   Men and Volts.  J.B. Lippencott, Co., New York, 1941.
• Hastings Sanders, C. The Story of Hastings-Raydist.  Published by Carol Hastings Sanders, 1979.
• Henning Genz. Nothingness; the science of empty space Translated by Karin Heusch, Perseus Publishing, Cambridge, MA 2001.
• Herrmann G. and Wagener S. The Oxide Coated Cathode. Translated by Phil. S. Wagener, Vol 2, Physics, Chapman and Hall, London, 1951.
• Hoffman, D. Singh, B. & Thomas, J. Handbook of Vacuum Science and Technology.  Academic Press, New York, 1998.<>
• Holland, L. Vacuum Deposition of Thin Films, Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1960.
• Holland-Merten, E. L. Handbuch der Vakuumtechnik, 2^nd ed.  Wilhelm Knapp, Halle 1950.
• Ibach, H. Ed. Electron Spectroscopy for Surface Analysis. Topics in Current Physics Springer, Berlin, 1977. [NB fly-leaf message in French to J.P. Hobson signed by J.D. Carette & D.Roy]. 
• Institute of Physics and Physical Society. Proceedings, 4^th International Vacuum Congress, Manchester, 1968, Part One, Part Two.  Institute of Physics and Physical Society, London, 1968.
• Jaeckel, Rudolf. Kleinste Drucke, Ihre Messung und Erzeugung, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1950. (Inscribed by author).
• Jaffe Productions. The Edison effect (video), 1995.
• Jehl, Menlo Park Reminiscence, Vols. 1-3, 1879 to 1941, The Edison Institute, 1942].**
• Jnanananda, Swami High Vacua, Van Nostrand, New York, 1947.
• Kaminsky, M. Atomic and Ionic Impact Phenomena on Metal Surfaces. Academic, New York, 1965.
• Knowles Middleton, W.E. The History of the Barometer, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1964.
• Kogan, M.N. Rarefied Gas Dynami, translated from the Russian by L. Trilling (Ed.)  Plenum Press, New York, 1969. 
• Kohl, Walter H. Materials Technology for Electron Tubes, Reinhold Publishing Corporation,  1951.
• Koller, L.R. - The Physics of Electron Tubes, McGraw- Hill Book Company, 1934.
• Kurylo, F. & Susskind C.  Ferdinand Braun, MIT Press, 1981.
• Lafferty J.M. ed. Foundations of Vacuum Science and Technology. Wiley, New York, 1998.
• Le Neindre B. and Vodar B. Eds. Experimental Thermodynamics II: Experimental Thermodynamics of non-reacting fluids.  Butterworth, London, 1975.
• Leck, J.J.  Pressure Measurement in Vacuum Systems, The Institute of Physics, 1957.
• Leck, J. H. Pressure Measurement in Vacuum Systems, 2^nd ed.  Chapman and Hall, Ltd. And Science Paperbacks, 1964.
• Lafferty J.M., Ed. S.Dushman. Scientific Foundations of Vacuum Techniques. 2^nd Edition, Wiley, New York, 1962.
• Lewin, G. Fundamentals of Vacuum Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1965.
• Lodge, Sir Oliver   Past years; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.
• Madey, T. and Brown, W. (Eds.) History of Vacuum Science and Technology-Commemorating 30^th Anniversary of the AVS.  AIP for AVS, 1984.
• Maissel L.I. and Glang R. Handbook of Thin Film Technology. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1983.
• Martin, T.C.  The Inventions, Researchers and Writings of Nikola Tesla, Barnes and Noble, 1995,
• Marton, L.Early History of the Electron Microscope. San Francisco Press, 1968.
• Marton, L. Ed. Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics, vol. 17. Academic, New York, 1962. [chapters by Eric kay on “Impact Evaporation and Thin Film Growth in a Glow Discharge and P.A. Redhead, J.P. Hobson & E.V. Kornelsen on Ultrahigh Vacuum].
• Masel, R.I. Principles of Adsorption and Reaction on Solid Surfaces. Wiley, New York, 1996. [post-its on pages 385 &607 with highlight on 607].
• Middleton K.W.E.  The Experimenters, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.
• Middleton K.W.E. The History of the Barometer, John Hopkins Press, 1964.
• Miessner, B.F.  On the Early History of Radio Guidance, San Francisco Press, 1964.
• Morgan, J. Electronics in the West, The National Press, 1967.
• Newman, F. H. The Production and Measurement of Low Pressures.  Ernest Benn, Ltd., London, 1925.  **
• O'Hanlon J.F. A User Guide to Vacuum Technology. Wiley, New York, 1980. **
• Optical Instrument Committee. The application of metallic fluoride reflection reducing films to optical elements, Frankford Arsenal, 1943.  **
• Pierce, J.R.   Theory and Design of Electron Beams, Van Nostrand, New York, 1949. **
• Power, B. D. High Vacumm Pumping Equipment.  Reinhold Publishing Corp., New York, 1966.
• Prutton, M. Surface Physics.Oxford Physics Series, Clarendon Press Oxford., 1975.
• Redhead, P.A. (ed.) Vacuum Science and Technology, Pioneers of the 20^th Century, Commemorating the 40^th Anniversary of the AVS.  Published for the AVS by the AIP Press, 1994.
• Redhead, P.A.;  Hobson, J.P. and Kornelson, E.V. The Physical Basis of Ultrahigh Vacuum.  American Institute of Physics, New York, 1993.
• Reich, H.J. - Theory and Applications of Electron Tubes, McGraw Hill Book Company, 1944.
• Roberts R.W. and Vanderslice T.A. Ultrahigh Vacuum and its Applications. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs N.J., 1963.
• Robinson N.W. The Physical Principles of Ultrahigh Vacuum Systems and Equipment. Chapman and Hall, London, 1968. [signed by Norman Robinson; post-it on page 223].
• Rodis-Lewis, G. Descartes, Cornell University Press, 1995.
• Roth, A. Vacuum Technology.  North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1976.
• Rudzinski, W and Everett, D.H. Adsorption of Gases on Heterogeneous Surfaces. Academic, London, 1992.
• Saksaganskii, G. L. Molecular Flow in Complex Vacuum Systems, translated by V.A. Pleshikov.  Gordon Breach, Science Publishers, New York, 1988. 
• Santeler, D., Jones, D., Holkeboer, D. and Pagano, F. Vacuum Technology and Space Simulation.  National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA SP-105, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1966.
• Schimank, H. Neue (sogenannte) Magdeburger Versuche uber den leeren Raum
• Scott- Taggart, J. Elementary Text-book on Wireless Vacuum Tubes, Radio Press, Limited, 1992.
• Sedlacek, M. Electron Physics of Vacuum and Gaseous Devices. Wiley, New York 1996.[NB post-its on page 357 & 502 probably for Paul's book on History of Vacuum Science].
• Shapin, S Schaffer, S. Leviathan and the Air- Pump, Princeton University Press, 1985.
• Shapin, Steven The Scientific Revolution Univ of Chicago Press 1996 [post-its on pages 37,65,96, 107,131,150].
• Simonds, W.A. A Boy with Edison, Country Life Press, 1931.
• Spangenberg, Karl R. Vacuum Tubes, McGraw-Hill New York 1948.
• Sparnaay, M.J. Adventures in Vacuum, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1992.
• Thomas, E. (Ed.) Advances in Vacuum Science and Technology, Proceedings, 1^st International Congress on Vacuum Techniques, Namur, Belgium 1958, Vol. I, Vol. II, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1960.
• Thomson, G.P. J.J. Thomson and the Cavendish Laboratory in his day, Thomas Nelson and Sons LTD, 1964.
• Thomson, J.J. The Discharge of Electricity Through Gases, Charles Scribners and Sons, New York, 1903. **
• Thomson, J.J. Rays of Positive Electricity and their Application to Chemical Analysis, Longmans, Green and Co., 1913. **
• Thomson, J.J. Recollections and Reflections, G. Bell and Sons, Ldt., London,  1936. **
• Tolk, N.H. et al. Eds. Desorption Induced by Electronic Transitions, DIET I. Springer Berlin, 1983. [Proceedings of the First International Workshop, Williamsburg, VA, May 12-14, 1982
• B.M.W. Chemisorption.. Butterworth, London, 1955.[post-it on page 125 which contains written annotation]
• Turnbull, A., Barton, R. and Riviere, J. An Introduction to Vacuum Technique.  John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1962.
• Van Atta, C. M. Vacuum Science and Engineering.  McGraw-Hill Book, Co., New York, 1965.
• Vanderbilt, B.M. Thomas Edison, Chemist, American Chemical Society, 1971.
• Varian, D. The Inventor and the Pilot, Pacific Publishers, 1983.
• Von Guericke, Otto (Translated by Margaret G.F. Ames). The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto Von Guericke. Kluwer Academic Publishers, (reproduction of 1672), 1993. **
• Von Guericke, Otto. Neue Magdeburger Versuche Uber Den Leeren Raum. VDI-Verlag, Dusseldorf, 1968.  (2 copies, 1 oversized) **
• Vyse, B. and Jessop G. The Saga of Marconi-Osram Valve. Vyse Ltd., Pinner UK, 2000. [post-its on pages 14,67, 69, 85 160 with highlighted text].
• Ward, L. and Bunn, J.P. Introduction to the Theory and Practice of High Vacuum Technology. Butterworths, London, 1967.
• Weissler, G. and Carlson, R. (Eds.) Vacuum Physics and Technolgy, Vol. 14 of Methods of Experimental Physics. Academic Press, New York, 1979.
• Welch, K.M. Capture Pumping Technology, 2^nd edition. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2001.
• Werner, E. - Werkstoffkunde der Hochvakuumtechnik
• Woodruff D.P. and Delchar T.A. Modern Techniques of Surface Science. Cambridge Solid State Series, Cambridge University Press, 1986. [NB post-it on page 285].
• Wolf, A. A history of science, technology and philosophy in the 16th & 17th centuries, The Macmillian Company, 1939.
• Yarwood, J. High Vacuum Technique.  John Wiley and Sons, New York, 2^nd ed., 1945.
• Yarwood, J. High Vacuum Techniques, 3^rd ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1955.
• Zobac, L. Zaklady Vakuovea Techniky.  Statni Nakladatelstvi, Technicke Literaury Praha, 1954.

AVS Proceedings

1955 Vacuum Symposium Transactions, Pittsburgh, PA. Committee on Vacuum Techniques Inc. (1956)

Transactions of the Ninth  National Vacuum Symposium of the American Vacuum Society, Ed. George H. Bancroft , October 31-November 2, 1962, Los Angeles CA, MacMillan ltd. London

Extended Abstracts: 13^th National Symposium of the American Vacuum Society, Ed. W.J.Lange October, 26-28, 1966, San Francisco, CA

Extended Abstracts: 14^th National Symposium of the American Vacuum Society, Ed. W.J.Lange, October 24-27, 1967, Kansas City. Missouri

Other Conference Proceedings

EVC-1, Vacuum 88, Selected proceedings of the 1^st European Vacuum Conference, 11-15 April, 1988, Salford, U.K. Special Issue of Vacuum, Vol 38/numbers 8-10/1988,  Pergamon Press

The Sixth European Vacuum Conference, 7-10 December, 1999, Villeurbanne, France, Vacuum 60/Numbers 1-2/Jan-Feb 2001.

Seminar on Ultra High Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications, 2-7 Oct. 1967, Estergom, Hungary

1^st Int. Workshop on Interaction of Gases with Solids Affecting Vacuum Processe, 28 May-1 June 1995, Magdeburg, Germany Vacuum 47/Number 4/April 1996.

First International Workshop on Hydrogen in Materials and Vacuum Systems, Nov 11-13, 2002, Newport News,VA , AIP Conference proceedings 671, Melville, New York, 2003.

Other

Visual Aids: History of Vacuum Science, J.M. Lafferty, ed. International Union of vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (3 ring binder)