[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 2/50
Description
Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge, Victoria University, Liverpool, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 12 December 1894. Lodge invites Fitzgerald to stay at his home and asks about an experiment with a glass tube and dust. 1p.
Transcription:
"M d Φ
You will please come to us 2 Grove Park on Saturday if you can. We are looking forward to your visit. We shall be perfectly ready and can easily put you up. On Thursday we are having a house warming so to speak, but it will be all set straight.
When you stroke a glass tube to get dust figures, the dust inside the tube gives quite a different pattern to dust in another tube end on. [Diagram] Nodes much further apart, Why is this?
Yours etc,
Λ"
Transcription:
"M d Φ
You will please come to us 2 Grove Park on Saturday if you can. We are looking forward to your visit. We shall be perfectly ready and can easily put you up. On Thursday we are having a house warming so to speak, but it will be all set straight.
When you stroke a glass tube to get dust figures, the dust inside the tube gives quite a different pattern to dust in another tube end on. [Diagram] Nodes much further apart, Why is this?
Yours etc,
Λ"
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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, accessed October 4, 2024, https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/1309.