[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge],
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Title
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge],
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Date
Identifier
GFF 2/11
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Item of correspondence from GFF letters
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A handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 17 Parkhurst Road, to George F. Fitzgerald. Lodge discusses scientific ideas relating to Tourmaline, electrometers and induction. 2pp.
Transcription:
"Dear Fitzgerald,
Peccari. I have been away from home and idle and though your letter was forwarded to me (after some delay) I have not answered it yet! I am much obliged to you for your suggestion regarding Tourmaline I haven't been able yet to think it over very rigidly but it is a notion worth attending to. But have you not made a slight misunderstanding about the current [ley?] crusts. It was when the temperature was crust that no unilation effect could be perceived. However I am immersed in an induction balance just now and have fuzzy ideas for everything else. With regard to the Electrometer the guard ring is [?] the [?] with Platinum and the disk Aluminium from which we may gather that Sir W.T. does not [?] much in sufficient diff of not being produced by contact to be perceived by an electrometer and quite right too I think. I believe that all parts of a conductor at which E is at rest are at once polarised whether it be homogenous or not, (whether the air in contact with the metals is at the same pol is another thing; and whether this is what is imparted to [?] is another [?] I am unable to think of just now). However, this is I suppose unorthodox and in general with regard to conduct EMF as somebody says in Geo [?] latest with regard to the Tides, "some fools say one thing and some another" but if I was to give my opinion it'd not be different.
Yours very truly,
Oliver Lodge"
Transcription:
"Dear Fitzgerald,
Peccari. I have been away from home and idle and though your letter was forwarded to me (after some delay) I have not answered it yet! I am much obliged to you for your suggestion regarding Tourmaline I haven't been able yet to think it over very rigidly but it is a notion worth attending to. But have you not made a slight misunderstanding about the current [ley?] crusts. It was when the temperature was crust that no unilation effect could be perceived. However I am immersed in an induction balance just now and have fuzzy ideas for everything else. With regard to the Electrometer the guard ring is [?] the [?] with Platinum and the disk Aluminium from which we may gather that Sir W.T. does not [?] much in sufficient diff of not being produced by contact to be perceived by an electrometer and quite right too I think. I believe that all parts of a conductor at which E is at rest are at once polarised whether it be homogenous or not, (whether the air in contact with the metals is at the same pol is another thing; and whether this is what is imparted to [?] is another [?] I am unable to think of just now). However, this is I suppose unorthodox and in general with regard to conduct EMF as somebody says in Geo [?] latest with regard to the Tides, "some fools say one thing and some another" but if I was to give my opinion it'd not be different.
Yours very truly,
Oliver Lodge"
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RDS Science Archive
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Manuscript
Language
English
Type
Coverage
1870-1901
Collection:
George Francis Fitzgerald Letters
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Citation
Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940, “[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge],,” RDS, accessed April 19, 2024, https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/1273.
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