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Actions	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Title Oliver Heaviside centenary commemoration display board 4, 1950 Reference UK0108 IET/SPE/08/004/04 Date 1950 Creator Institution of Electrical Engineers Scope and Content Display board used in an exhibition to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Oliver Heaviside, 18 May 1850. Content as follows: 1874-1889: Includes photographs of 3 St Augustine's Road, NWI; letter from Lord Rayleigh, Royal Society, complaining about the 'exceeding stiffness' of Heaviside's paper; loading cases at the terminals of cables in the London Trunk Exchange; one of Heaviside's 'filter' calculations c 1878; part of a draft letter by Heaviside, in which he refers to his being thought of as a sort of 'mathematical monster' (unidentified). [Digital version available] Exent 1 Display Board Persons keyword Heaviside Oliver, Royal Society, University of Gottingen Subject Electromagnetism, London, Torquay, Paignton Conditions governing access Open Level of description Item Hierarchy browser 110000004 IET Institutional Records contains 6 parts UK0108 IET Archives of the IET contains 13 parts UK0108 IET/SPE IET special series contains 12 parts UK0108 IET/SPE/08 IET display and exhibition materials contains 6 parts UK0108 IET/SPE/08/004 Oliver Heaviside centenary commemoration display boards, 1950 contains 11 parts UK0108 IET/SPE/08/004/04 Oliver Heaviside centenary commemoration display board 4, 1950

Title
Oliver Heaviside centenary commemoration display board 4, 1950
Reference
UK0108 IET/SPE/08/004/04
Date
1950
Creator
Institution of Electrical Engineers
Scope and Content
Display board used in an exhibition to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Oliver Heaviside, 18 May 1850. Content as follows: 1874-1889: Includes photographs of 3 St Augustine's Road, NWI; letter from Lord Rayleigh, Royal Society, complaining about the 'exceeding stiffness' of Heaviside's paper; loading cases at the terminals of cables in the London Trunk Exchange; one of Heaviside's 'filter' calculations c 1878; part of a draft letter by Heaviside, in which he refers to his being thought of as a sort of 'mathematical monster' (unidentified). [Digital version available]
Exent
1 Display Board
Persons keyword
Heaviside Oliver, Royal Society, University of Gottingen
Subject
Electromagnetism, London, Torquay, Paignton
Conditions governing access
Open
Level of description
Item

Details