Basil Mahon

Oliver Heaviside: Maverick MasterMind of Electricity

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Produktbeschreibung

A compelling account of the life of one of the great pioneers of electrical science Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925). He showed how to analyse circuit, how to rid telephone lines of distortion and interpreted Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism in a way that working engineers and physicists could understand.

Produktdetails

• History and Management of Tech
• Verlag: Institution of Engineering & Technology
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: 6 bis 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780863419652
• ISBN-10: 0863419658
• Artikelnr.: 35731125

Autorenporträt

A former officer in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Basil Mahon is a retired Government Statistician who ran the 1991 census in England and Wales and has had a lifelong passion for the physical sciences. Oliver Heaviside follows up his acclaimed book The Man Who Changed Everything, a biography of Heaviside's own hero James Clerk Maxwell.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Do try to be like other people: London 1850-68
Chapter 2: Seventy words a minute: Fredericia 1868-70
Chapter 3: Waiting for Caroline: Newcastle 1870-74
Chapter 4: Old Teufelsdrockh: London 1874-82
Chapter 5: Good old Maxwell!: London 1882-86
Chapter 6: Making waves: London, Liverpool, Dublin and Karlsruhe 1882-88
Chapter 7: Into battle: London 1886-88
Chapter 8: Self-induction's in the air: Bath and London 1888-89
Chapter 9: Uncle Olly: Paignton 1889-97
Chapter 10: Country life: Newton Abbot 1897-1908
Chapter 11: A Torquay marriage: Torquay 1908-24
Chapter 12: Last days: Torquay 1924-25
Heaviside's legacy