PRINCE GINORI CONTI | SIGNED LETTER TO FREDERICK GARDNER COTTRELL
1932. One-page TLS from Italian senator, businessman, and geothermal energy pioneer Piero Ginori Conti to Cottrell, dated April 15th, 1932, on an upcoming meeting between Conti and an associate of Cottrell’s. In Very Good condition. On Senato del Regno letterhead. Faintly creased and light age toned, with some faint smudging. Signed in black ink by Conti: “P. Ginori Conti”. Faint pencil writing beneath signature reads “Prince Ginori Conti”. Shelved at DuPont Cottrell binder.
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Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $200
NOTES
This piece comes from a large collection of letters to, from, and concerning Frederick Gardner Cottrell, a prominent American inventor and physical chemist. Best known for his invention of the electrostatic precipitator, a device which revolutionized emission-heavy industries, Cottrell rose to prominence for his endeavors to fund American scientific research through the establishment of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Cottrell was highly regarded by the other leading scientific minds of his age, a fact reflected in this collection of his letters with historic figures in research, academia, and American politics. Among these are Cottrell’s correspondences with Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Nobel laureates William Ramsay (discoverer of the noble gases) and J. J. Thompson (discoverer of the electron), as well as exchanges with two American presidents, Herbert Hoover and Woodrow Wilson.