Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge
Title
Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge
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GFF 2/37
Description
Item of correspondence from GFF letters
Source
Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, 2 Grove Park, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 8 January 1993. Lodge discusses scientific ideas regarding gravitation and friction. 2pp.
Transcription:
"M d Φ
Of course I'm coming on the 21st since you have laid commands upon me. Very enterprising of you. How's Pioneer getting on? Haven't seen a review of it yet. Hope it will sell. You have read page 208.
Better than publishing your letter [o?] for other folk to benefit and would be for you to work these thing out and publish most elaborately.
No I don't think that gravitation is known by [u?] nearer the u2/V2 and in a resisting medium deviation and friction would [n?] one another to a very high order (as far as direction was concerned) and as regards speed, deviational force would defend a 1n power of velocity; and by Ohm's Law etherised friction is probably also 1n power of velocity (distance matters nothing in either case). Very likely also friction would depend on moving mass [?]; and if its compensation ever for any one body means compensation always for all, expect for the expected thing, you mention, about target and radius vector not being perpendicular to each other. I [r?] however your ingenious Doppler mode of [c?] counteracting even this.
Λ"
Transcription:
"M d Φ
Of course I'm coming on the 21st since you have laid commands upon me. Very enterprising of you. How's Pioneer getting on? Haven't seen a review of it yet. Hope it will sell. You have read page 208.
Better than publishing your letter [o?] for other folk to benefit and would be for you to work these thing out and publish most elaborately.
No I don't think that gravitation is known by [u?] nearer the u2/V2 and in a resisting medium deviation and friction would [n?] one another to a very high order (as far as direction was concerned) and as regards speed, deviational force would defend a 1n power of velocity; and by Ohm's Law etherised friction is probably also 1n power of velocity (distance matters nothing in either case). Very likely also friction would depend on moving mass [?]; and if its compensation ever for any one body means compensation always for all, expect for the expected thing, you mention, about target and radius vector not being perpendicular to each other. I [r?] however your ingenious Doppler mode of [c?] counteracting even this.
Λ"
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RDS Science Archive
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Manuscript
Language
English
Type
Coverage
1870-1901
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Citation
Lodge, Oliver, Sir, 1851-1940, “Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge,” RDS Digital Archive, accessed July 16, 2025, https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/1297.