[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from W. Booth],
Booth, W.
Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir, 1858-1937.
Flax.
Coherer.
RDS Library & Archives
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[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from W. E. Adley],
Adley, W. E.
Royal Dublin Society.
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from W. E. Ayrton],
Ayrton, W. E. 1847-1908
Perry, John, 1850-1920.
Eddy currents (Electric).
Railroads.
Copper wire.
Annealing of crystals.
Physical Society (Great Britain)
Electromotive force.
Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)
Academic rites and ceremonies.
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from W. E. Ayrton].
Electricity.
Photography.
Dynamics.
Oscillographs.
Typesetting.
Patents.
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 1821-1894.
Zinc.
Copper.
Peltier, J. C. A., 1785-1845.
Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879.
Thermoelectricity.
Magnetics.
Electromagnetism.
Refraction.
Rubber.
Electrometer.
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from W. E. Towers],
Towers, W. E.
Chief Crown Solicitors Dept.,
1896
Debt.
1898
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from W. E. Wilson],
Wilson, W. E.
Minchin, George Minchin, 1845-1914.
British Club,
Spectrum analysis.
Color photography.
Bolometer.
Galvanometer.
Wilson, William Edward, 1851-1908
Trouton, Frederick Thomas.
Uranium.
Ammonium.
Radiation.
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 1851-1916.
Rambaut, Arthur Alcock.
Handwritten letter from W.E. Wilson, Daramona Streete, Westmeath, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated Jan 7th 1898.
Wilson, William E. (William Edward), 1851-1908
Item of correspondence from GFF letters.
Stokes, George Gabriel, 1819-1903.
Actinometer.
British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Spectrum, Solar.
Yerkes Observatory.
Observatories.
Boys, C. V. 1855-1944.
Solar radiation.
Temperature.
The Athenæum,
Motors.
Electric generators.
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from W. E. Wilson].
Handwritten letter from W.E. Wilson to George F.Fitzgerald. No date or address.
Carbon.
Spectroscope.
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from W. F. Barrett],
Barrett, W. F.
Light.
Atoms.
Alloys.
Electric conductivity.
Metals.
FitzGerald, George Francis, 1851-1901.
Science.
Hicks, W. M. 1850-1934.
Science
Silicon steel.
Steel alloys.
Magnetic properties.
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from W. F. Barrett].
Education.
Everett, J. D. 1831-1904.
Plunkett, Horace Curzon, 1854-1932.
Art and science.
Physics.
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from W. Feddersen],
1881
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from W. G. Bond],
"The Electrician"
Electrical engineering
Handwritten letter from W.G. Bond, Holmby, Fortune Green Lane, West Hampstead. N.W., to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 7 November 1897. Bond discusses his retirement from "The Electrician", and his idea for a monthly science magazine intended for public readership. 2pp. Transcript: Dear Prof. Fitzgerald. You may possibly have already observed a paragraph in "Nature" announcing my retirement from "The Electrician" after nearly ten years toil. The "fous et oigo malorum" was, so far as I can make out, my candidature for the secretary-ship of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Before my failure to obtain that post the words of the chief proprietor's mouth were considerable smoother than butter. Within 48 hours of my rebuff I was mated willy-nilly to a co-editor. Now a joint-editorship is a rather difficult machine to run, especially when the mates are one of a totally different breed and when the junior is only waiting the convenience of the financial 'losses' to run his senior out of the show altogether. In view of the fact that I had served the ship faithfully for so long a period and twice had stood by it in times of some distress, I felt, I must confess, aggrieved, not merely at the actions taken by the proprietors by alone all at the manner in which action was taken; there was a studied, and unnecessary discounting & lack of consideration about it all, reminding me painfully of the manner of Mr Trotter's dismissal, for such it was in effect. This is, however, all ancient history now and of little interest to anyone save myself, and I have only troubled you with my sad chronicle of woe, since you have been such a strong supporter of what I am pleased to think of as the Trotter-Bond "Electrician". Perhaps this recital is a somewhat curious way of showinf my keen appreciation of yout assistance. I am medidating having a monthly magazine of sound but not too profound science; my goal is a [?] of scientific 'XIX century' or 'Contemporary Review', wherin all lovers of science might glean something about the latest developments of physical and chemical knowledge. There is even to-day a fairly large public interested, at least, in science and ready to read articles by good menm if not too slodgy. It seems to me that as time goes on this public must increase in quantity and, if Trinity College do their duty, in quality. Perhaps you might favour me with your views on the subject. I am in no hurry to begin; indeed I am looking to a little leisure to precute my studies in various direction. In mentioning the matter to anyone likely to be in interested in it, you will beair in mind that if my little banthing were to come to the knowledge of my late "employers" they would very probably put a spoke in my little wheel. Yours very truely W.G. Bond
Bond, W. G.
RDS Library & Archives GFF collection of letters
1897
Fitzgerald, George Francis, 1851-1901
Handwritten letter from W. G. Bond, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, E. C., London, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 13th November 1896. Bond discusses his conversation at the Institution of Electrical Engineers. 1p. Transcription: "Dear Prof. Fitzgerald. I live in hopes of seeing a diplomatic draw from you in time for next issue. Last night at the Institution of Electrical Engineers I was engaged for nearly half an hour in an interesting conversation with the great man; he was geniality x10? He was extremely pained at the receipt of several "indecent" epistles from "mathematicians". I wonder if one of them comes from Dublin? He also glories greatly in his victory over the - gentlemen in inverted commas. Theirs ignorance... [a?] me, t'is something amazing! Yours very truly W. G. Bond"
RDS Library and Archives GFF collection of letters
Fitzgerald, George Francis, 1851-1901. Correspondent
Thomson, J. J. 1856-1940.
Gases.
Handwritten letter from W. G. Bond on "The Electrician" stationary, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, E.C. London, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 12 October 1896. Bond discusses who may be the best candidate for a job relating to electrical discharge, and a recent writing by Bond. 2pp. Transcript: Dear Prof. Fitzgerald. Many thanks for your advice re [?] on the electric discharge in unified gases. I have written Prof. J.J. Thomson fully and freely on the subject. My two favourites for the job were Profs J.J. Thomson & S.P. Thompson; the former I regardedas hopelessly eminent and the latter as too much mixed up in book-making to make anything but a paste & scissors job of this one. We shall see what we shall see. Your vigorous indictment caused me considerable popularity. By the same post as this, I am sending you a proof of my solution of the problem of how to get the great man to accept advice. I scarcely think your leader would have served that purpose. I trust you will think my faint reflection of it worth printing. Any suggestions or corrections that you have to make will be most carefully considered by me. I am sincerely obliged to you for arousing me to the enormity of the nonsense contained in a certain B. A. Paper. Yours very truely, W.G. Bond
Handwritten letter from W. G. Bond, Holmby, Fortune Green Lane, West Hampstead. N. W., to George F. Fitzgerald, dated Wednesday 10 November 1897. Bond discusses his issues with the owners and managers of "The Electrictian" publication. 2pp. Transcription: Dear Prof. Fitzgerald. I am sincerely obliged to you for the expression of your views on the subject of my [?], and they will carry great weight with me. The proprieters of "The Electrician" are mostly connected with the Eastern Telegraph Co. Now the policy of the managers of that company is to make everyone absolutely dependent on it and as a consequence of the [?] and quiet attendant on this regime as applied to a cable com-pany, the same policy has been steadily persued in regard to a totally different concern, namely "The Electrician" Printing and Publishing Co. Whilst not a quixolic combadaut creature I am, thanks to my forbears and early training, naturally averse to fawning on anyone. Hence without any overt act of war on my part or their's, there was always a natural antipathy between myself and the proprietors as there was between them & Mr Troller. Hence the mo-ment circumstances formed, they ejected me and put in my place a man who, whatever his merits may be and they are many, will be thanks to a wife and Family & a complete absence of financial resources wholly dependent on this good will of his employers. Now that may be good business management of but it does not tend to independence of advertisers & improper proprietnial pressure. Your's W. G. Bond
RDS Library & Archives GFF collection of letters.
Fitzgerald, George Francis, 1851-1901, Correspondent
Preece, W. H.
Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925.
Cables, Submarine.
Handwritten letter from Walter G. Bond, Holmby, Fortune Green Lane, West Hampstead. N.W., to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 12 March 1898. The letter discusses submarine cables and plans being proposed for them by a firm in which a friend of Bond's works. 2pp. Transcription: Dear Prof Fitzgerald. A gentleman, partner in a well-known firm of consulting submarine-cable engineers, was explaining to me the other day a scheme recommended by them in connection with a proposed direct transmission from London to the far end. He told me that his firm's plan was foolo f[?] by Jaur "beou ami" Mr Preece and he laughingly suggested that it would be a good job to consult Mr Oliver rHeaviside on, since he could tell them whether this scheme was [diagram] theoretically sound and might be induced to take an interest in the job by warn of the potential possibility of passage of arms with Mr Preece. I replied that possibily the duel would be very amusing to outsiders like myself, but that I doubted whether it would altogether be good business for the firm, and suggested you. Therefore I was desired to approach you on the matter, as the gentleman was formally quite unknown to you and moreover I did not care to commit myself to an assetion that you ever did work of the kind. Of course on hearing from you that you do, I will immediately inform my friend an ask him to write you directly, formally & fully. Meanwhile I may say that the firm in question have recommended trusted twin conductor cable with a four foot lay. In the accompanying sketch K=condenser, a1 a2 twin conductor subterranean cable 200 miles 1mg, C=submarine cable. To this arrangement it is objected that it would not be neutral as regards external disturbances dor the reason that one half of the circuit is not of the same length & capacity as the other. These external disturbances are likley to be s[?] as high speed Wheatstone circuits might possibly be laid in the same circuit. The cable instruments will, of course, be siphon [?]. Trusting that you may see your way to assist in this matter. Belive me. Yours very truely. Walter Bond.
Zeeman, Pieter,
The Atom
Handwritten letter from W. G. Bond on "The Electrician" stationary, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, E.C. London, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 8 May 1897. Bond discusses the recent work of J.J. Thomson on the atom as divisible. 2pp. Transcript: Dear Prof Fitzgerald. I have asked the printers to send you an early proof (unrevised) of the Friday Evening Discourse delivered by Prof J.J. Thomson on the 30th. I hope to publish it in the next issue, if I can get the necessary illustrations in good time. My reason for sending it to you is the hope that you may feel inspired, thusly, to write "The Electrician" either a leading article or a signed article of any length you deem fit up to say four columns. You will observe that Prof J.J. Thomson gets out of several little difficulties connected with the "radiant matter" hypothesis by the assumption the atom, hitherto thought to be "one & indivisible" at least by the average perpetrator of text-books, is on the contrary infinitely divisible. This idea he works out very prettily and it helps one over several obstacles to a true faith in regard to Zeeman. I am aware that Prof Thomson is not the first to propose this hypothesis, but I cannot help thinking that a lucid explanaion of the experimental basis for this revolutionary "s[?] way" with difficulties and the new difficulties (if any) into which the hypothesis may be expected to land us, would be very timely just now. What do you say? If you feel like writing and want a little more time, I would hold over Prof. Thomson's lecture until our issue of May 21st. Your's very truely, W.G. Bond P.S. our usual rate of renumerations is 1 of per column, but I should be proud to leve the length of the length of the article largely to you and to make the fee two guineas.
Handwritten letter from W. G. Bond on "The Electrician" notepaper, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, E.C., London, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 11 May 1897. The letter discusses religion and scientific advancement, and an upcoming edition of "The Electrician". 2pp. Transcription: Dear Prof. Fitzgerald. Prof. J.J. Thomson's lecture will not be published this week, but next week; we are having some little trouble in getting the blocks done. I hope, therfore, you will have sufficient time and determination to put pen to paper and administer consolations to those of the true faith (at least it was true not so very long ago). To call a man a splitter of hairs used in the good old days to be sailing close to insult, but now no one says nay when that bedrock of the textbook chemist, the atom, is being split into as many fragments as the Hell Gate rock was a few years since. And the worst of it is that as a rule our ingenious wriggling out of me set of difficulties mly bonds us in another quagmire a little later, like our social & political reforms; for every [?] tree cut fown half a dozen annoying brambles or noxious weeds spring up and the algebraical sum of things approximates a constant. Your's very truely, W.G. Bond P.S. Since you insist upon arranging your method of [?], so be it; but I cannot allow the rate to remain where it is.
Cable structures
Handwritten letter from W. G. Bond, Holmby, Fortune Green Lane, West Hampstead. N. W., to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 21 March 1898. The letter discusses cable management and refers to a firm that builds electrical cables. 2pp. Transcription: Dear Prof, Fitzgerald. I am much obliged to you for your letter re cable disturbance which I passed on to my consulting friend with the result that he wides me to the effect that his firm proposes to take your advice and consult Mr Oliver Heaviside if Mr Preece's opposition prove serious. It does not pay (in £.s.d)to the magnanimous in these commercial days. "To save the face" of the firm a 200 mile cable will probably be built an the circuits arranged as advised and the eng experiements will be indulged in to cure the obvious want of balance. I am sorry I troubled you. Your's very truely, W. G. Bond
Lodge, Oliver, 1851-1940.
X-rays.
Capacitance meters.
Typed letter from W. G. Bond to George F. Fitzgerald on paper from "The Electrician" publication, dated 7 November, 1896.
Handwritten letter from W. G. Bond, Holmby, Fortune Green Lane, West Hampstead. N. W. dated 13 January 1898. Bond discusses communication dynamics in the Physical Society. 2pp. Transcription: "Dear Prof. Fitzgerald, I am much obliged to you for backing my bill on the Physical Society. As to my making com-munications to the Society that would be a flat contradiction of the second law of the dynamics of science, to wit, the com-munication of knowledge from a body of less knowledge to another of greater. No doubt wisdom [?] - occasionally, very occasionally - out of the mouths of babes & sucklings, but not scientific contributions. However 'silent members' have their sphere of usefulness, I would fair hope. Communication & reception are equal & opposite; hence there could be no papers unless there were passive receivers. Your's very truly W. G. Bond"
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from W. G. Lindsay],
Lindsay, W. G.
Aeronautics.
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from W. G. Lyon],
Lyon, W. G.
School libraries.
Clergy.
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from W. G. Murray],
Solenoids.
Centrifugal force.
1893
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from W. H. M. Christie],
Christie, W. H. M.
Royal Greenwich Observatory.
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from W. H. Mackintosh],
Mackintosh, W. H.
TCD,
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from W. H. McNeight],
McNeight, W. H.
1900
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from W. H. Shaw],
Shaw, Napier, 1854-1945
Universities and colleges.
Emmanuel College,
1894
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from W. H. Shrustom],
Shrustrom, W. H.
Schuster, Arthur, 1851-1934.
Ultraviolet radiation.
Clifton College,
1890
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from W. J. Sollas],
Sollas, W. J. 1849-1936
Molecules.
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from W. M. Coates],
Coates, W. M.