1873
by Shaffner, Taliaferro Preston
1873. Very Good. Shaffner, Taliaferro Preston (1818-81). A.L.s. to Messrs. E. & F. N. Spon. New York, September 12, 1873. 1 page. 252 x 197 mm. Remains of mounting present. Provenance: Latimer Clark. To the London publishers of Latimer Clark's Elementary Treatise on Electrical Measurement (1868), asking permission to quote from that work and from Clark and Sabine's Electrical Tables and Formulae (1871). Shaffner, a free-lance telegraph promoter, was in the process of revising his own Telegraph Manual (1859). Origins of Cyberspace 196. . (Inventory #: 40752)