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Comdt. John Ledingham on Kilbaha, winner of The Nations
Cup at Dublin in 1997.
Cup at Dublin in 1997.
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Diana Conolly-Carew on Barrymore, The International
Grand Prix of Ireland winners for Ireland, Dublin, 1966.
Grand Prix of Ireland winners for Ireland, Dublin, 1966.
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Comdt. Ged O’Dwyer on Limerick Lace, for Ireland, winners of the International Jumping Competition in Dublin, 1934.
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The Galway Blazers at the Inter-Hunt Competition at Dublin in 1927.
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The first winners of the Dublin Horse Show 'lepping' competition in 1868.
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Horse Show Heroes: A History of Show Jumping at The Dublin Horse Show
From the introduction of some the world’s earliest jumping courses to its continuing support of riders and breeders the Dublin Horse Show has been instrumental in the…
From the introduction of some the world’s earliest jumping courses to its continuing support of riders and breeders the Dublin Horse Show has been instrumental in the…
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Exhibition video for the Dublin Horse Show exhibition 2022.
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List of members of the Society for the year 1897 together with the list of members of the Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland who became members of the Royal Dublin Society under the amalgamation agreement of March 22, 1888.
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Depicts a gentleman bust leangth, wearing a black doublet and a white ruff.
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The unidentified subject depicted half length, directed left, gazing front, wearing a gold-embroidered black bodice with, white linen, flat-falling collar with a plain, square edge, over a whitework linen piccadill with bobbin lace edging and a gold…
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The unidentified subject depicted bust length, directed right in three-quarter profile, gazing front, bearded and slightly smiling, wearing a black doublet embellished with black silk passmenterie and pinked to expose a red chemise beneath, and a…
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Charles Giesecke, Professor of Mineralogy to the Dublin Society. The subject depicted bust length, directed right, his face in three-quarter profile, wearing a brown, tall-collard coat and a white cravat, against a dark background.
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Constantine Peter Curran, elected to the RDS Council in 1943, Vice-President 1971-72, active promoter of the Society’s arts and music programmes. The subject depicted bust length, in frontal profile, bespectacled and wearing a dark three-piece suit…
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Mervyn Edward Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt, landowner, politician and connoisseur. The subject depicted half length, directed forward, his full-bearded face in frontal profile, wearing formal attire with one gold shirt stud visible and with…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 12 March 1899. The paper’s masthead is from Preston’s home at Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He has recently returned from a tour. He lists the committee…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 12 February 1897. The paper’s masthead is from Preston’s home at Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. Preston thanks Fitzgerald for his recent letter. He accepts his…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to Frederick Thomas Trouton, dated 8 September 1890. The letter is written from 22 Trinity College, Dublin. Preston responds to Trouton’s letter by saying he would be glad to assist him in his work. He would…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 3 September 1896. The paper’s masthead is from Preston’s home at Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. Preston and his wife thank Fitzgerald and his wife for sending a…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 23 August [probably 1896, since its contents are referenced in GFF 11/6]. The paper’s masthead is from Preston’s home at Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 5 January 1899. Preston writes from Grand Central Hotel, Belfast. Preston writes that he has sent the first proof of his article to Philosophy magazine. He describes the notes he…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 9 January 1897. Preston writes from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He describes his recent note for the RS [Royal Society?], which he has expanded by…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 1 July 1896. The paper’s masthead is from his home at Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. Preston writes that if Fitzgerald agrees to print his paper in Philosophy…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 13 January 1897. Preston writes from Grand Central, Belfast. He “hunted” for Fievez’s paper in the Royal Dublin Society Archives and found it. This theory was criticised by…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 16 February 1897. Preston writes from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He responds to Fitzgerald’s statements about Stoney, who covers the limitations…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 7 July 1897. Preston writes from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He writes that he is pleased that Dr Stoney is “coming round” in his opinions and…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 22 November 1897. He writes that Zeeman’s theories are relevant to their discussions and cites a passage from last March’s issue of Philosophy magazine, about ion motion and…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald dated 24 November 1897. Preston writes from the Imperial Hotel, Waterford. He thanks Fitzgerald for his suggestions. He writes that he has sent three small plates and a short letter to…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 2 January 1898. Preston wrote from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He thanks Fitzgerald for his letter and reference to a paper by Lorentz [Hendrik…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 18 January 1898. Preston wrote from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He tells Fitzpatrick is writing to the Swan Electric Engraving people to arrange for…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 4 January 1898. Preston wrote from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He describes a successful experiment involving pieces of wire enclosed in and…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 23 January 1898. Preston wrote from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin, about his scientific experiments. He thanks Fitzgerald for his letter and states that…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written on 6 February 1898. He thanked Fitzgerald for sending him a card which contained information about the Bismuth Spiral. He writes that he has sent the negatives to Philosophy…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 11 June 1896. The paper’s masthead is from his home at Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He writes that he has enclosed a copy of the paper, titled “the more you…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written on 15 March 1898 from the Club House Hotel, County Kilkenny. He writes that he is sending the Astro Physics paper to the College for Fitzgerald to read. Preston read…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written on 13 February 1899 [location not printed]. Preston writes about a scientific paper by Becquerel [probably referring to Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel, a French physicist], which…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written on 19 June 1898 from the Hotel Metropole, London. He writes that he has enclosed the scientific paper sent by Fitzgerald. He doubts that its “new” statements are “true”…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written on 25 June 1898, on paper, from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He writes about his plans to use iron in experiments about the Zeeman effect when he…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written on 2 September 1898, on paper, from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. Preston writes that he had “half-hoped” that Fitzpatrick had returned home and…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written on [18?] November 1898, on paper from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He writes that he looked up the Astro Physics Journal and found a photograph. He…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written on 21 September 1898, on paper from the University Club, London. He writes that he is pleased that Fitzgerald could not follow Right’s explanation for the fact that “no…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written on 21 November 1898, on paper from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He writes that he saw a reference to Cotton’s ideas in the [Complete Reader?]…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written on 24 November 1898, on paper from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He writes that he has successfully replaced the quartz lens with a glass lens,…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written on 28 November 1898, on paper from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He writes that he is unable to meet Fitzgerald for dinner because he will be in…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written from Tilbrush, Smith’s Hotel, and dated 24 April 1896. Preston addresses his “objections” about a scientific theory he had discussed. He discusses the effects of…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. Preston writes that he has returned from a tour in the country and received his card, which contained "acceptable…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald. Preston wrote from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He thanks Fitzgerald for sending a cheque for £25, which he intends to send to Yeats [possibly referring to…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald about Fitzgerald’s upcoming scientific experiment. Preston writes from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He intends to visit the laboratory the next day to…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to RDS Librarian Dr A. J. Foord, written from his home at Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. Preston writes that he encloses the manuscript of his paper about Radiation Phenomena, which he describes…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald. Preston writes from the Inns of Court Hotel Limited, London [entrances: High Hilborn and Lincoln’s End Fields]. He thanks Fitzgerald for his help and sympathy during their “great…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald about scientific theorems. The letter’s masthead is from the Portarlington Arms Hotel of Corcoran’s, Roscrea. Preston thanks Fitzgerald for his letter about Dr G. Johnstone Stoney’s…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written from Skibbereen, County Cork and dated 18 March 1896. He writes about hypothetical scientific experiments, spectrum analysis, ether, and calculations. He describes experimental…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin, and dated 20 April 1896. He wrote that he had enclosed a note written on 18 March when he was in Skibbereen. The…
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Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 22 November 1899. Preston writes from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He writes that he is recovering from illness and was not allowed to receive…
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Handwritten letter from Katie Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written from the Preston home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin on behalf of her husband, Thomas Preston. He is unable to attend the upcoming meeting of the Council of the…
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Portrait of Dr. George Daunt (1712-1786), surgeon to Mercer’s Hospital, Dublin. The subject depicted bust length, directed left, gazing front; wearing an orange-satin, negligé cap, a collarless and cutaway coat of brown brocade with blue lining…
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Posthumous portrait of John Bowes (1690-1767), Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland, later 1st Baron Bowes of Clonlyon, County Meath, and Lord High Chancellor of Ireland (1757-1767). The subject modelled bust length in proper right…
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The digital reproduction of the Flora of Inner Dublin by Peter Wyse Jackson and Micheline Sheehy Skeffington with contributions from Declan Doogue, John Ackeroyd and Donal Synnott and illustrations by Harry McConville and Evelyn Drinan.
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The digital reproduction of Kerry and Dexter Cattle and other ancient Irish Breeds: A History by Patrick Leonard Curran.
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Bust of Thalia, Muse of Comedy, the subject modelled slightly to proper right, with blind eyes; wearing a chiton, belted beneath the bust and secured at each shoulder with a pin of disc form, and a fruit and foliate wreath on her head; on a white…
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A carved head of a walrus, the head of soapstone, the tusks of scrimshaw.
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Semi-abstract sculpture of two cellos standing back-to-back.
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Walter Clegg Stevenson (1877–1931), surgeon and radiologist at Dr. Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin. The subject depicted bust length, directed and gazing front; seated on a hoop-back, Windsor style chair; moustachioed and wearing a dark coloured,…
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Portrait of Charles Uniacke Townshend (1828-1907), land agent, Vice-President of the Royal Dublin Society (1893-1907), Honorary Secretary of the Royal Dublin Society (1887-93). The subject depicted three-quarter length, in three-quarter left profile,…
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Portrait of Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, the bearded and mustachioed subject depicted half length in three-quarter left profile, wearing black tie, against a black background. Signed l.r. Orpen.
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Group portrait of four members of the RDS Executive Committee, depicted around a table covered with a green baize, in the Board Room of the RDS, Ballsbridge; on the table, an architectural drawing for the enlargement of the Pembroke Hall at the RDS,…
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The subject depicted seated at his harpsichord, wearing a red suit, signed and dated l.l. Micheal O Nuallain 99.
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Portrait of Emily St. Clare, British stage-actress and long-term paramour of Sir John Fleming Leicester, 1st Baron de Tabley (1762-1827), politician and patron of the arts. The subject depicted full length, side-saddle on a mule, in three-quarter…
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Annual report of the general state of the Royal Dublin Society's Botanic Garden, and collections therein, in November, 1841. Signed D. Moore, curator.
Mr Prior's monument in Christ Church, Dublin.
Brief report of a professional tour through…
Mr Prior's monument in Christ Church, Dublin.
Brief report of a professional tour through…
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Portrait bust of John Philpot Curran (1750–1817), Irish politician, lawyer and Master of the Rolls for Ireland (1806-14); the subject modelled to proper right, gazing upwards; wearing classical robes; on a white marble socle of circular, waisted…
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Muriel Françoise Gahan, founding member of the Arts Council, renowned for her role in the establishment of The Country Shop, Country Workers Ltd., the Irish Homespun Society and Country Markets Ltd. and for promoting traditional crafts in Ireland.…
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Sketch of the facade of Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin, with a partial view of the rotundas of the National Library and the National Museum. Inscribed verso: Presented to M.E. Dockrell T.D. by his constituency Feb. 1975.
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A George III carved giltwood armorial armchair, designed by James Mannin and made by Richard Cranfield in 1767, the shaped, rectangular padded back in a moulded frame carved with cornucopia issuing wheatsheaves and fruit and surmounted by the Royal…
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The subject modelled partially seated, head cast downwards, reading a book.
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The RDS digital reproduction of Divinarum institutionum libri septem by L. Caelius Firmianus Lactantius, in a Renaissance manuscript written in Florence, Italy, circa. 1430.The seven books of the Diuinae institutiones, are the most important work by…
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Depicts Sir Humphrey and his trainers in a paddock with ten of his hunters, all prize winners at the Horse Shows of 1902 and 1903. Signed and dated lower right.: H.F. Lucas 1904
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Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 19 December 1893. Lodge thanks Fitzgerald for his reply regarding Oliver Heaviside and states that he will send it to John Perry. Lodge discusses a…
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Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 9 October 1893. Lodge encourages Fitzgerald to be an external examiner at the Victoria University of Manchester, and he notes that he has some nasal…
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Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 17 May 1893. Lodge discusses a letter he wrote to Arthur Milman, and scientific ideas regarding heat, potential energy and force.…
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Schuster says he is going to see you soon about Hons Physics question. I send him a no. of suggested questions for you to modify. He will bring them you (ID sheets). Also I send a brief summary of what my candidate is able…
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Schuster says he is going to see you soon about Hons Physics question. I send him a no. of suggested questions for you to modify. He will bring them you (ID sheets). Also I send a brief summary of what my candidate is able…
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Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 21 Waverley Road, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 1 January 1892. Lodge discusses an experiment involving rotating disks using an armature and wires. 2pp.
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Delighted to…
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Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 21 Waverley Road, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 21 October 1889. Lodge discusses the ideas of Vaughan Pendred and the topic of ether, and he disagrees with Fitzgerald's criticisms of Lodge's…
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Item of correspondence from GFF letters
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Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 1892. Lodge discusses scientific ideas regarding light, dust particles, reflexion and absorption. 1p.
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Thanks for papers. They are cut off.
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Thanks for papers. They are cut off.
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Item of correspondence from GFF letters
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Largely illegible handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 14 January 1993. Lodge discusses scientific topics such as ether and atmospheres. He explores the ideas of William Thomson Kelvin and John William Strutt…
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Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 25 May 1893. Lodge discusses how a body can cool and heat up again. 2pp.
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A body can cool by leaking its heat away, or by…
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A body can cool by leaking its heat away, or by…
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Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 1894. Lodge discusses Fitzgerald's boat journey on the sea, and he explains a formula of Oliver Heaviside. Lodge states that the formula is correct. 1p.
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Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 6 March 1894. Lodge notes that he will be giving a lecture at the Royal Institution on the work of Heinrich Hertz and asks if Fitzgerald has any…
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Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 9 March 1894. Lodge discusses scientific equipment such as a microscope, a lamp, an oscillator and a radiation detector. 2pp.
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Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 21 Waverley Road, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzpatrick, dated 26 June 1892 and divided into three parts. In one part, Lodge discusses money that Fitzgerald owes. In the second part, Lodge hopes that a report…
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Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 1 February 1896. Lodge discusses the physics theories regarding propagation of longitudinal waves. He mentions the physicists J.J. Thomson, James Clerk…
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Largely illegible handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 4 August 1898 and on the subject of an abstract of a paper written by the physicist William Sutherland. 1p.
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Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge to George F. Fitzgerald. The letter is partially illegible but Lodge is discussing a sensitive subject that he notes Silvanus Phillips Thompson is concerned about. He offers for Arthur Prince Chattock to make…
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Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge to George F. Fitzgerald, without date. Lodge criticises the science journal, the Electrician, for not publishing Fitzgerald's letter and discusses future plans. He speculates whether William Thomas Kelvin and…
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