Théorie des Machines simples, en ayant égard au frottement de leurs parties et a la roideur des Corages. Piece qui remporté le Prix double de l'Academie des Sciences pour l'année 1781.
Paris: Moutard, 1782. Extremely rare offprint (preceding the journal version by three years, i.e. Norman 526) of this celebrated memoire in which Coulomb created the science of friction. OCLC list just three copies worldwide: Harvard; Huntington; Strasbourg. “Coulomb’s most celebrated study, one that brought him immediate acclaim, was Théorie des..... More
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