[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from O. Henrici],
Henrici, O.
Kelvin, William Thomson, 1824-1907.
Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 1842-1919.
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[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Oliver Heaviside],
Handwritten note from Oliver Heaviside to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 19th January 1893. 1p.
Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925
1893
Fitzgerald, George Francis, 1851-1901
Pensions
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 10th February 1894. Heaviside discusses his illness and his financial situation, including his pension . 2pp.
1894
Hertz, Heinrich, 1857-1894.
Lorentz, H. A., 1871-1944.
Electromagnetic waves.
1889
Absentee landlordism
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 16th February 1894. Heaviside discusses money and an absentee landlord. 2pp. Transcription: "My dear Fitzgerald, I dimly recognise that some part of your letter is note [?]. A treatise is needed to expound all sides of the question! I shall not write it. But I don't think you take money from T. Coll. "because you are poor", but because it is your proper payment for your work and to which you have an equal right whether you are poor or rich. Again, to emphasise this point, if the sci. world says my work is worth that of hundreds of [h?] or millions (I quote your words) and the sci world choose to pay me distinctly for that work according to their own (quoted) estimation, why then I should be proud to take it! It would be a pot of money. However, even if I may have overfully emphasised in my previous a particular side of the question, still the fact remains that that side is a very real one. To give an extreme case, people sometimes starve rather than go to the workhouse. Why? The anociations, I suppose, and their pride. It's for the power of many. I know more of that than most people! I had an example last evening. I went to a little musical party, my brother's family with a proportional to assist or lead rather. It was all very nice until a certain person came in, when a strange change occurred. All mutual intercourse ceased. Mr Parker became the sun and all revolved round him. I became a perfect nonentity - not even introduced, except later perfunctorily as an afterthought. So it continued all this while he remained and when he left he (perhaps naturally) did not think it worth while including me in his farewells. Having gone, things righted themselves and I received semi apologies. He was a gentleman, obliged to be very civil to him, important to be right with him. On inquiring I learned he moved in the best society and was an absentee Irish landlord! Of course you did understand that I entirely [p?] the fact that I have [?] significance in this other respects when I (very rarely) go out but it is not pleasant to be entirely snuffed out by the arrival of a gentleman! Yours sincerely, Oliver Heaviside"
Quaternions.
Fourier analysis.
Vector algebra.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 26th February 1894. Heaviside discusses at length Quaternions, Fourier Analysis, and Vector Algebra.
Larmor, Joseph, b. 1857.
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 1844-1906.
Ether (Matter)
Magnetics.
Cathode rays.
Earth currents.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated April 13th, 1894. Heaviside discusses Magnetics, Cathode Rays and Earth currents. He refers to Joseph Larmour and Ludwig Boltzmann
Sound-waves.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 26th May 1894. Heaviside discusses Fitzgerald's sound waves idea. Heaviside expresses his annoyance at Fitzgerald for discussed his 'bodily infermities' in public, and explains why he would rather his illness remain private. 1p. Transcription: My dear Fitzgerald, Your sound waves analogies are very interesting, though I am afraid it would work out quite as complicated as a long telephone circuit, and even more so, prehaps. Have you any idea how to compensate in the ease of a string vibrating in a viscous medium. That is, compensate for the frictional resistance and produce undistorted transmission of a pulse? 'Bodily Infirmities'. You gave me a most disagreeable shock. To have ones bodily infirmites introduced to public notice is quite painful. Have I ever said anything to you to warrant the statement? I think not. My bodily infimities should not be publicy admitted, ever if they did present, etc. Some may pity me, which I don't want, and dislike; and my enemies, if I have any, will chuckle...'
Kelvin, William Thomson, 1824-1907
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated May 30th 1894. Heaviside discusses two unnamed 'eminent electricians'. 1p. Transcription: "My dear Fitzgerald, I didn't know you were thinking of one of the eminent electricians' funny remarks. It was a shot on his past, on spec. But I do not mind the eminent now that he is no longer able to sit upon me and suppress me as he used to though it is quite possible that my temporary assumption may have him at the bottom of it, that is if he meant to keep up his character of the genial sir- the eminent electrician. Now there is another eminent electrician at Oxford St. There is a remarkable likeness between them, and I always couple them. Both are clever men of the world and managers of other people, and money makers, and both are quacks, and smart, and impudent. Just after Lord K. had given evidence against the eminent electrician's belt, the eminent electrician prominently advertised in the papers and magazines what had the appearance of being a recommendation of his belt from Lord K. Now the other eminent electrician is just the same! The em. eln. has somewhat come down in the sci. world. of late years, of which he was such an ornament. But I find that they are all still very much afraid of him. I don't mean sci. men exactly but those who are in the electrical business. They call him all sorts of names behind his back; but he is too influential, pulls too many strings, and can do too much harm to people in secret ways, for them to quarrel with him. A fellow might lose a contract worth hundreds of pounds, or thousands, through not keeping on the right side of the eminent. How he manages with the Papers, I don't know exactly, but it is [e?] that some form of them are, or have been, his apologists and boot cleaners; though things are not so bad as they used to be, when it was strictly forbidden to make any reference to him whatever (presumably unfavourable, of course!) Yours sincerely, Oliver Heaviside"
Fitzgerald, George Francis, 1851-1901. Correspondent
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 22 February, 1894. Heaviside is asking Fitzgerald to inform Lord R. that he will reject his offer. He apologies to Fitzgerald for taking up his time, and thanks him for his help. 1p. Transcription: 'My dear Fitzgerald, Lord R. is a man of his word. Or perhaps you have left out his opinion of my audacity. Daring to look a gift horse in the mouth. Anyhow, it would not be [?] for me to ask more. Will you, therefore, be so good as to convey to Lord R. my most respectful declination of the offer? I know I have been the cause of a great waste of your valuable time, all about nothing too. I am very sorry. The time may come when I may be compelled to beg for assistance, of any kind. May it be far off! Yours sincerely, Oliver Heaviside'
Electromotive force.
Terminologies.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated December 17th 1893. Heaviside discusses Fitzgerald's recent paper in Nature. He discusses electromotive force, and the use of certain terminologies. 1p.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, date June 28th 1893.
Waves.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 5th August 1894. Heaviside discusses Waves at length. Includes five diagrams. 5pp.
Dynamics.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated January 28th, 1895. Heaviside discusses Joseph Larmor's paper on Dynamical Theory. 1p.
1895
Boltzmann, Ludwig,1844-1906.1844-1906.
Kinetic theory of gases.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 4th February 1895.
Poincaré, Henri, 1854-1912.
Vector analysis.
Motion.
1892
Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831-1879.
Electromagnetic fields
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 17th March 1895. Heaviside discusses James Maxwell, expanding on the 'disparaging remarks' he had made about him previously. 2pp.
Energy.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 4th March 1896. Heaviside discusses the kinetic theory of gases, energy, and Ludwig Boltzmann. 3pp.
1896
Ultraviolet radiation.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 6th June 1896. Heaviside discusses his recent income, and its effects. He then briefly discusses recent discoveries relating to ultraviolet radiation and Cathode rays. 1p.
RDS Library & Archives GFF collection of letters
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 9th June 1896.
X-rays.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 11 July 1896. Heaviside briefly discusses Cathode Rays and his recent experiments. 1p.
Transatlantic cables.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 22nd August 1896.
Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925.
1896.
Burch, George James, 1852-1914.
Hertzian waves.
Electrometer.
Recording instruments.
Telegraph.
Marconi, Guglielmo, 1874-1937.
Bessel functions.
Preston, Thomas, 1860-1900.
Stoney, G. Johnstone 1826-1911.
1897
Inductance.
Angular momentum (Nuclear physics) .
Electromagnetism.
Marconi, Guglielmo,1874-1937.1874-1937.
Integrals.
Cables, Submarine.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 30th July 1896. Heaviside writes a series of equations. He then discusses integrals, cathode rays, and the submarine. 4pp.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Newton Abbot, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated May 23rd, 1897. Heaviside discusses his new home in Newton Abbot.
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Dynamics
Radiation.
Wave-motion, Theory of.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Newton Abbot, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 24th September, 1898. Heaviside briefly discusses Ether, Radiation, Waves and Dynamics. 2pp.
1898
Preston, Thomas,1860-1900.1860-1900.
Zeeman effect.
Electrons.
Vacuum-tubes.
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 1821-1894.
Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867.
Zeeman, Pieter,
Molecules.
Physics.
Ions.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Anodes.
Oscillations.
Electromagnetic theory.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Bradley View, Newton Abbot, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated May 8th 1899. 5pp.
1899
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Newton Abbot, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated June 3rd, 1897. Heaviside discusses his new home in Newton Abbot. 1p.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Newton Abbot, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 19th June 1897.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 12th August 1893. Heaviside discusses a review of his recent paper. 2pp.
Telephony.
Gravitational fields.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated August 17th 1893. Heaviside discusses Telephony, Ether, Magnetics, and Gravitational fields. 4pp.
Planets.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 19th August 1893. Heaviside discusses at length Ether, Motion, Waves and Planets. 4pp.
Scalars (Mathematics).
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 30th August 1893. Heaviside expresses his frustration at corporations taking up Lord Kelvin's time, 'wanting his advice about electric lighting', preventing Kelvin from releasing papers faster. 2pp.
Atomic theory.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton, Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 25th December 1893. Heaviside discusses at length atomic theory. 4pp.
Electromagnetic fields.
Wheatstone bridge.
Electric arc.
Handwritten letter from Oliver Heaviside, Paignton Devon, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 31st December, 1893. Heaviside discusses electromagnetic fields and telephony. Includes small diagram. 2pp.
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Oliver Heaviside].
Helmholtz equation.
Dispersion.
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from one of his children].
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from Otto Lilenthal],
Lilienthal, Otto, 1848-1896
Aeronautics.
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from Otto Lilienthal],
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from P. Lenard],
Lenard, P.
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from P. Sidney Barrington],
Royal Dublin Society,
1886
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from Philip Harris],
Harris, Philip
Philip Harris & Co.
Weights and Measures.
Galvanometer.
Receipts (Acknowledgments).
Invoices.
Mercury.
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from Private Secretary to Thomas A. Edison],
Edison, Thomas A. 1847-1931.
Phonograph.
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from Professor Reynolds],
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Pyke, Harris & Co. Limited],
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from R. Auchmuty Shekleton].
Manners and customs
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from R. B. Clifton],
Clifton, R. B.
Total solar eclipses.
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from R. C. Parsons],
Parsons, R. C.
Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)
Preece, W. H.
Ayrton, W. E. 1847-1908.
FitzGerald, Maurice.
Science
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from R. Fiddes],
Fiddes, R.
University of Manchester.
Victoria University,
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from R. H. Scott],
Meteorological Observatory,
Meteorological Office,
1887
Maples Hotel,
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from R. M. Conner],
Conner, R. M.
FitzGerald, George Francis, 1851-1901.
Joly, John, 1857-1933.
Registrar's Office, Trinity College,
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from R. Müller-Uri],
Crookes, William, 1832-1919.
Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad, 1845-1923.
Platinum.
Tyndall, John, 1820-1893.
Tesla Foundation.
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from R. W. A. Holmes],
Holmes, R. W. A.
Education
[Letter to George F. FitzGerald from R. W. Longfield].
Longfield, R. W.
Surveyors.
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from R.T. Glazebrook].
Glazebrook, Richard, 1854-1935
Bicycles.
Glazebrook, Richard, 1854-1935.
Ball, Robert S. 1840-1913.
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Rayleigh],
Rayleigh, John William Strutt, Baron, 1842-1919
The Royal Society,
Royal Dublin Society.
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Reginald Aubrey Fessenden],
Fessenden, Reginald Aubrey, 1866-1932
Helmholtz, Hermann von,1821-1894.1821-1894.
Western University of Pennsylvania,
British Association for the Advancement of Science.
Electricity.
Elasticity.
Hysteresis.
Density.
Magnetism.
Brashear, John A. 1840-1920.
Keeler, James Edward, 1857-1900.
Hastings, Charles S.1849-1932.1849-1932.
Working class.
Optics.
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Reid, J.S.],
Reid, J. S.
Stokes, George Gabriel, 1819-1903.
University of Cambridge.