Lodge, Oliver

Lodge, Oliver. 1909. The Ether of Space. New York Harper. 

Locke, David. Science as Writing. Yale University Press, New Haven. 1992. Lodge, Oliver J. Modern Views of Electricity. Macmillan and Co., London. 1889. 

The Athenceum occasionally included mild and balanced articles on subjects like Theosophy and occultism, and some of Sir Oliver Lodge s more extreme notions. It even reviewed in its Science column Alchemy Society member... 

Letter from Benjamin Brodie to H. E. Armstrong, February 25 1874, ICL and letters from Oliver Lodge to H. E. Armstrong, 11 May 1887 and 21 September 1908, ICL. 

Department of Physics, Oliver Lodge Laboratory, The University of Liverpool, Oxford Street, Liverpool, L69 3BX, U.K. 

Richet, Charles. The Natural History of a Savant. Translated by Sir Oliver Lodge. J.M. Dent Sons Limited, London. 1927. 

Oliver Lodge s Experiment. An experiment first done by the English physicist Oliver Lodge is the origin of a third method by whieh transport numbers can be obtained. Here also there is a limitation one must be able to observe a boundary between two electrolytes, for knowledge of the boundary s movement is the observation upon which the method is based. This implies that the ions concerned must differ in color (not always an easy condition to fulfill) or at least in refractive index (but then the observation of the boundary may not always be easy). 

Oliver Lodge, "Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 389, Birmingham, 1886. 

The moving boundary method was developed in 1886 by the British physicist Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (185I-I940) and in 1893 by the British physicist Sir William Cecil Dampier (formerly Whetham) (1867-1952). The method is illustrated in Figure 6.10. Suppose that it is necessary to measure the transport numbers of the ions in the electrolyte MA. Two other electrolytes M A and MA are selected as indicators each has an ion in common with MA, and the electrolytes are such that moves more slowly than M, and A " moves more slowly than A". The solution of MA is placed in the electrolysis tube with the solution of M A on one side of it and that of MA on the other the electrode in M A is the anode, that in MA is the cathode. 

To illustrate my meaning in regard to the Seed of the Species, I quote the following from Ether and Reality, by Sir Oliver Lodge (Messrs. Hodder Stoughton) ... 

This extract from Sir Oliver Lodge I have quoted in full, for in the words to every seed his own body lies the whole doctrine of alchemy, which has recognized a metallic seed peculiar to all metals. 

Turning from the words of the alchemists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to those of a twentieth century scientist, let me quote from Sir Oliver Lodge s Ether and Reality once again ... 

University of Liverpool Oliver Lodge Laboratory Department of Physics Liverpool, L69 7ZE UK... 

Oliver Lodge invents the coherer for detecting radio waves. 

Modifications of Hittorf s method of determining transport numbers were used by a large number of experimenters. The moving boundary method was first used by Oliver Lodge, who showed that the hydrogen ion moves with the velocity of 0 0026 cm./sec. under a potential gradient of i volt/cm. It was improved by Whetham. ... 

When Gibbs again gave the correct equation, Oliver Lodge said Surely if the union of certain elements can generate 0c units of heat when heat production is all that is allowed, they can, under favourable circumstances, do Je units of (say) electrical work instead, quite independently of any considerations of entropy or of the temperature at which the heat might have been generated. ... 

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