G.O.M. of British Science
IR OLIVER LODGE has died in his ninetieth year. He has been called the Grand Old Man of British Science, and with good reason, for his acHtievements ranked high among those of his age, his speculations ranged far and wide, he was a man of the highest character and the span of his activities was exceptionally long. It was a lecture by Tyndall, one of the great Victorian men of science, that fired Oliver Lodge with a desire to be a scientist. As a popular lecturer, Lodge explained the teleplione and the phonograph when they were brought to England, and that is a long time ago. He was one of the pioneers of wireless telegraphy and its offspring, ‘broadcasting. In the ’eighties he was on the track of those epoch-making discoveries that led up to the success of Marconi. Indeed, an invention of Lodge’s
helped along Marconi’s work. The discoveries of the German scientist, Hertz, in the field of electric waves added a term to the language of. Science-Hertzian waves they were called. Oliver Lodge had made similar discoveries independently, and in 1894 he demonstrated a method of signalling by means of these waves. Oliver Lodge was therefore one of those research workers who made it. possible for this talk to be heard by you this afternoon. This tribute to his genius is paid in his own coin. (Tribute from 2YA, August 25.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 65, 20 September 1940, Page 6
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