Past Years
Past Years
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USDSir Oliver Lodge (1851–1940) was a physicist instrumental in the discovery of electromagnetic waves: the basis of today's radio and X-ray technology. He came from humble beginnings. After suffering at the hands of violent masters and schoolmates during his childhood, Lodge went on to teach physics and chemistry to young women at Bedford College in London. Later, he was appointed professor of physics at the University of Liverpool, and became known for his public lectures on a vast range of topics, from the comic faults of phonographs to the medical applications of X-rays. Whether seeing the cells of a voltaic battery in a pile of plates or appreciating the enunciation of Alexander Graham Bell, Lodge had a warm enthusiasm that shines through in this touching autobiography, first published in 1931. It remains ideal for general readers as well as students in the history of science.
Product details
July 2012Paperback
9781108052702
396 pages
216 × 140 × 22 mm
0.5kg
13 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Ancestry and early days
- 2. Schooldays
- 3. Relation with other boys at school
- 4. Education
- 5. Influence of the Royal Institution
- 6. Later education in London
- 7. Reminiscences of Bedford College
- 8. Scientific work and friends in London
- 9. Personal retrospect
- 10. Romance
- 11. Influence of the British Association
- 12. Reminiscences of Coopers Hill and assistants and popular lectures
- 13. Liverpool
- 14. Scientific work at Liverpool
- 15. Scientific work at Liverpool (cont.)
- 16. Scientific work at Liverpool (cont.)
- 17. Electric waves and the beginnings of wireless
- 18. Other friends
- 19. Family life
- 20. Holidays
- 21. Side issues
- 22. Early experiences in psychical research
- 23. Psychical research
- 24. Further psychic adventures, and psycho-physical phenomena
- 25. Reminiscences of my years at the university of Birmingham
- 26. Birmingham friendships and recollections
- 27. Scientific retrospect
- 28. Apologia pro vita mea
- Index.
