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  First Edition of Brian Bracegirdle's The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution; Signed by Theoretical Physicist Stephen Hawking

  BRACEGIRDLE, Brian [Stephen Hawking].

  The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution.

  London: Heinemann Educational Publishers, 1973.

  First edition of this comprehensive survey of physical, surviving industrial sites in the United Kingdom. Quarto, original publisher's cloth with industrial vignette stamped in silver, cartographic endpapers, richly illustrated. Signed by Stephen Hawking in blue ballpoint. Additionally signed by fifteen colleagues in various inks, as a presentation to a faculty member. The inscription in one colleague's hand reads, "With gratitude and best wishes, from the friends of the IOA computer staff." Accompanied by a provenance statement from the original recipient, which reads in part, "The book was a gift to me in 1973 on leaving a job as a computer operator at the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at Cambridge University where Stephen Hawking also worked as a research scientist." Hawking was a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death. In 1968, Hawking joined the staff of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, where he remained until 1973. This became the site of some of his most important early scientific breakthroughs in the study of singularities and black holes. At the end of his tenure at the Institute of Astronomy, Hawking published his first b...

  Price: $45,000.00     Item Number: 151334

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