{"id":764,"date":"2011-02-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=764"},"modified":"2023-07-07T18:16:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T18:16:02","slug":"1895","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/10\/1895\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 35 &#8211; 1895: Elektricit\u00e4t und Licht: Einf\u00fchrung in die messende Elektricit\u00e4tslehre und Photometrie by Otto Lehmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Braunschweig, 1895<\/p>\n<p>Though initially it seems to be an unremarkable, standard textbook of its day, this volume by German physicist Otto Lehmann (1855-1922) holds a surprise for those who make it through to the final folded plates in the back, for the plates contain vivid, citrus-colored images depicting currents running along <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/10\/1895\/1895-ill2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-766\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-766 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1895-ill2-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1895-ill2-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1895-ill2-1024x984.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1895-ill2-768x738.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1895-ill2-624x599.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1895-ill2.jpg 1144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>power lines under various conditions. They\u2019re striking and almost psychedelic in their intensity.<\/p>\n<p>The MIT Libraries own two copies of E<em>lektricit\u00e4t und Licht<\/em>, one of which was purchased for the Department of Physics the year it was published.<\/p>\n<p>Three years after the publication of this work, the author discovered liquid crystals \u2014 substances that behave as liquids but have the optical properties of crystalline solids. This helped pave the path toward scientists\u2019 realization that matter exists in more than just the three states of solid, liquid, and gas. \u00a0In order to further his research on crystals, Lehmann also invented the crystallization microscope, now known as the heating stage microscope. \u00a0Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics several times from 1913 until his death in 1922, Lehmann never was awarded the prize.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/10\/1895\/1895-ill1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-765\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-765 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1895-ill1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/10\/1895\/1895-ill3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-767\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-767 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1895-ill3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/10\/1895\/1895-title\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-768\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-768 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1895-title-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/jp08pj\/alma990011017910106761\">Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Braunschweig, 1895 Though initially it seems to be an unremarkable, standard textbook of its day, this volume by German physicist Otto Lehmann (1855-1922) holds a surprise for those who make it through to the final folded plates in the back, for the plates contain vivid, citrus-colored images depicting currents running along power lines under various conditions. They\u2019re striking and almost psychedelic in their intensity. The MIT Libraries own two copies of Elektricit\u00e4t und Licht, one of which was purchased for the Department of Physics the year it was published. Three years after the publication of this work, the author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}