Oliver Lodge

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Oliver Lodge


Born
in Penkhull, Staffordshire, The United Kingdom
June 12, 1852

Died
August 22, 1940

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Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS was a physicist and writer involved in the development of key patents in wireless telegraphy. Lodge, in his Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), coined the term "coherer." He gained the "syntonic" (or tuning) patent from the United States Patent Office in 1898.
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Pioneers of Science

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Raymond, or Life and death:...

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The Ether of Space

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Why I Believe in Personal I...

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Past Years an Autobiography...

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Life and Matter A Criticism...

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The Survival of Man: A Stud...

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The Immortality of the Soul

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Reason And Belief

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“unless they are at a practically infinite distance. That is the only answer that can be given. It was the tentative answer given by Copernicus. It is the correct answer. Not only from every position of the earth, but from every planet of the solar system, the same constellations are visible, and the stars have the same aspect. The”
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“Jupiter takes 4332 days to make one revolution); then”
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“About this time the tremendous invention of printing was achieved, and Columbus unwittingly discovered the New World. The”
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