| RefNo | MS/603/7/269 |
| Previous numbers | 1297 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Oliver [Joseph] Lodge, Mariemont, Edgbaston, to [Joseph] Larmor |
| Creator | Lodge; Sir Oliver Joseph (1851-1940); British physicist |
| Recipient | Larmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); Irish theoretical physicist |
| Date | 6 February 1909 |
| Description | He 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 believes that since the Royal Society meeting, the symptoms point to Muirhead having had a small stroke and he wants this explained to Larmor, accounting for his 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 unable to continue the subject. He relays a description of an experiment made in May 1907, when the aerials at each station 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'. |
| Extent | 4p. |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8070 | Lodge; Sir; Oliver Joseph (1851 - 1940); physicist | 1851 - 1940 |