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RefNoMS/603/7/269
Previous numbers1297
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to [Joseph] Larmor
CreatorLodge; Sir Oliver Joseph (1851-1940); British physicist
RecipientLarmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist
Date6 February 1909
DescriptionHe cannot make out why so little notice has been taken by electrical or other journals of his Royal Society paper since its communication. Many Fellows had not heard of it beforehand, 'it seems rather hole-and-corner work'. He started to write about Alexander Muirhead, whom he thinks 'will not last much longer'. Muirhead has suffered from lameness and deafness all his life, 'caused at an early age by being dropped by a careless nurse. In confidence, Lodge belives that since the Royal Society meeting, the symptoms pint to Muirhead having had a small stroke and he wants this explained to Larmor,accounting fo rhis silence at the Society. Lodge encloses a letter from Muirhead's wife, for the personal part of it. Lodge is so busy that he thinks he will be inable to continue the subject. He relays a description of an experiment made in May 1907, when the aerials at each sttaion were bisected diagonally, making two pairs of triangular areas, noting the resulting ability to send two messages from the same aerial via adjacent halves. Lodge thinks he ought to publish this and may send it to 'Nature'.
Extent4p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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