Georges Claude - Selected Bibliography

Selected Bibliography

Claude wrote several semi-popular descriptions of his research, in addition to his wartime tracts and a memoir.

• L'Électricité à la portée de tout le monde. Vve C. Dunod. 1901. http://books.google.com/books?id=PatiQwAACAAJ. Claude's first book, Electricity Made Accessible to Everyone, was a very popular exposition. It won the Prix Hébert de l’Académie des Sciences, and was translated into German. Christine Blondel writes of it, "In fact the success of the book was enormous. More than 60,000 copies were sold, nearly double the number of Jean Perrin's famous book, Les atomes."
• L'air liquide, sa production, ses propriétés, ses applications. Préface de d'Arsonval.. Vve. C. Dunod. 1903. http://books.google.com/books?id=OqKEAAAAIAAJ. Liquid Air: Its production, its properties, and its applications, published shortly after the founding of Air Liquide.
• Liquid air, oxygen, nitrogen. Introduction by d'Arsonval.. P. Blakiston's Son & Co.. 1913. http://books.google.com/books?id=1h0TAAAAYAAJ. Translated by Henry E. P. Cottrell from Air liquide, oxygène, azote. Préface de d'Arsonval.. H. Dunod et E. Pinat. 1909. http://books.google.com/books?id=q6GEAAAAIAAJ.
• Sur l'utilisation de l'énergie thermique des mers. Institut Océanographique. 1926.. Bulletin, No. 486. On the Utilization of the thermal energy of the seas.
• Ma bataille contre la vie chère. A. Fayard. 1939. http://books.google.com/books?id=O4T6HAAACAAJ. My Battle Against the High Cost of Living. La vie chère literally refers to "dear life" (expensive living). It was an obsession of interwar France (1919–1939).
• Ma vie et mes inventions. Plon. 1957. http://books.google.com/books?id=LTy3AAAAIAAJ. My Life and My Inventions, Claude's autobiography, published a few years before his death in 1960.