Thermionic Emission. A Survey of Existing Knowledge with Particular Reference to the Filaments of Radio Valves

London: His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1932. First Edition. Original cloth backed printed boards.. Very good; backstrip somewhat stained.. 8vo, [4], [1] - 116 pp. (the bibliography is interleaved with blank pages for additional notations).

"Thermionic Emission" (the discharge of electrons from hot bodies) raises fundamental questions concerning atomic structure and interaction. Stiles' report covers the burgeoning number of publications in this specific area up until 1930. Absent from the Bakken Catalog and Shiers.