Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge
Title
Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Sir Oliver Lodge
Creator
Identifier
GFF 2/61
Description
Handwritten letter from Sir Oliver Lodge to George F. Fitzgerald, without a date. Lodge discusses an experiment by J.J. Thomson. 2pp.
Transcription:
"M d Φ
J.J.T. has got results all right; and has he now tells me put the [s?] plate in a box inside the vacuum i.e. in the cathode rays and got nothing. He says both a cathode and phosphorous are necessary. I tried to find attempts to make Hertz waves to pump light waves through the box on to the plate, but that failed. I thought it was superimposed Λ and λ. I don't know what it is now. All the better!
Yours,
OJL
I do hope that the lung trouble with your children is nothing serious. It's always alarming. At one time we had a lot of trouble of that sort."
Transcription:
"M d Φ
J.J.T. has got results all right; and has he now tells me put the [s?] plate in a box inside the vacuum i.e. in the cathode rays and got nothing. He says both a cathode and phosphorous are necessary. I tried to find attempts to make Hertz waves to pump light waves through the box on to the plate, but that failed. I thought it was superimposed Λ and λ. I don't know what it is now. All the better!
Yours,
OJL
I do hope that the lung trouble with your children is nothing serious. It's always alarming. At one time we had a lot of trouble of that sort."
Source
RDS Library & Archives GFF collection of letters
Rights
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/1321.