[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge],
Title
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge],
Creator
Date
Identifier
GFF 2/31
Description
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.
Transcription:
"M d Φ
Yes I'd like your model ether and scope. But I should like to receive them at Liverpool some time before hand so as to get used to them. The scope includes the picture of course? I will write about them later.
Yes I know the oil spark dodge. What do you make out is the reason why you can write lamps through your body? Is it a condense action with a big C2 but small C? Which sounds nonsense but see today's Nature page 441. I have got a big oscillator, but not so big as 12 ft square, but big enough and non portable. I incline to do [c?] the less known things like effect of light on spark and perhaps impact times.
As a detector of radiation I propose to blow some fuses if I can make what mess I like of min E light system.
I am interested just now in colour vision and would sooner have done that, but they seemed to pine for another Hertz lecture.
I have read, or rather skimmed, your wild pioneering article in "Sci Progress".
I enclose a [s?] from my brother, to whom I mentioned your wish that Heinrich had stuck with orthodox. S V q. Probably you're too busy to read it. If so just return it.
Λ"
Transcription:
"M d Φ
Yes I'd like your model ether and scope. But I should like to receive them at Liverpool some time before hand so as to get used to them. The scope includes the picture of course? I will write about them later.
Yes I know the oil spark dodge. What do you make out is the reason why you can write lamps through your body? Is it a condense action with a big C2 but small C? Which sounds nonsense but see today's Nature page 441. I have got a big oscillator, but not so big as 12 ft square, but big enough and non portable. I incline to do [c?] the less known things like effect of light on spark and perhaps impact times.
As a detector of radiation I propose to blow some fuses if I can make what mess I like of min E light system.
I am interested just now in colour vision and would sooner have done that, but they seemed to pine for another Hertz lecture.
I have read, or rather skimmed, your wild pioneering article in "Sci Progress".
I enclose a [s?] from my brother, to whom I mentioned your wish that Heinrich had stuck with orthodox. S V q. Probably you're too busy to read it. If so just return it.
Λ"
Source
RDS Library & Archives GFF collection of letters
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Copyright RDS Library & Archives. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the RDS Library & Archives.
Relation
RDS Science Archive
Format
Manuscript
Language
English
Type
Coverage
1870-1901
Collection
Citation
Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940, “[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge],,” RDS Digital Archive, accessed July 11, 2025, https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/1292.