FROM GALILEO TO THE NUCLEAR AGE. An Introduction to Physics. Signed and inscribed by the author to fellow rocket scientist Henry Seiki Inouye.
University of Chicago Press, 1956. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Very good+ condition / Very good- condition (DJ). Item #020394
xviii, 451 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. The price-clipped dustjacket is browned on the spine and back panel, has a crease on the front panel, and is lightly shelfworn; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated in black and white; with photos by the author, and with drawings by Chichi Lasley. ASSOCIATION COPY: Contains a inscription from one metallurgist to another. Inscribed on the front endpaper "To Dr. Henry Seiki Inouye with the author's appreciation and warm personal regards [signed] Harvey B. Lemon (at least you don't have to read it)." LEMON was a consultant to UofC Metallurgical lab during the Manhattan Project. He also worked as the Chief Physicist and Head of the Rocket Branch at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. He became the Science and Education Director at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. INOUYE: After enlisting and serving with distinction in the US Army, awarded the Purple Heart and other citations and medals, and achieving the rank of First Sergeant Inouye worked 38 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was the recipient of 8 patents, including one for the iridium alloy INOR-8, which was used in cladding the nuclear power systems of deep-space missions such as Voyager and Cassini. Second edition, fifth impression. The text is clean and unmarked.
Price: $875.00