Address by Sir F.A. Abel; to the British Association for the Advancement of Science September Leeds 1890.

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1st Edition. Presentation copy signed by author. Description: Maroon cloth with gilt borders and titles to front. Language: English. Book Condition> Good+: Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. 4.5cm tear to spine cloth. Sunned boards. Tightly bound with aged toned intact endpapers. Lightly tanned pages with occasional corrections (possibly the authors - see signature to title page) to the text. One small blind stamp library impression to title page "BRISTOL PUBLIC LIBRARY". DJ Condition> No DJ. 49pp. Size: 12mo (large) 21cm by 14cm. Provenance: Signed by Author. Author: Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet FRS (1827-1902) was an English chemist Studied chemistry under A W von Hofmann at the Royal College of Chemistry, became professor of chemistry at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1851, and three years later was appointed chemist to the War Department Work on the chemistry of explosives preparing the way for the "smokeless powders" which came into general use towards the end of the 19th century; cordite, the type adopted by the British government in 1891, was invented jointly by him and Sir James Dewar At the request of the British government, he devised the Abel test, a means of determining the flash point of petroleum products Under the leadership of Sir Frederick Abel, first, Gun-cotton was developed at Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills, patented in 1865, then, the propellant Cordite, patented in 1889 In electricity Abel studied the construction of electrical fuses and other applications of electricity to warlike purposes, and his work on problems of steel manufacture won him in 1897 the Bessemer medal of the Iron and Steel Institute, of which from 1891 to 1893 he was president He was president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (then the Society of Telegraph Engineers) in 1877 He became a member of the Royal Society in 1860, and received a royal medal in 1887 He took an important part in the work of the Inventions Exhibition (London) in 1885, and in 1887 became organizing secretary and first director of the Imperial Institute, a position he held till his death in 1902 He was knighted in 1891, and created a baronet in 18931902 September 6th Died Buried in Nunhead Cemetery. PLEASE ASK for additional photographs if required. N° de ref. del artículo 7548

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