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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Mahon, Basil.     Subjects     Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925.     Electrical engineers -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Electrical engineering -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.     Electrical engineering -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mahon, Basil.       by title:      The forgotten genius...       by call number:      621.3092 H442m     Search the Web     Mahon, Basil.     Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925.     Electrical engineers -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Electrical engineering -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.     Electrical engineering -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.       MARC Display

The forgotten genius of Oliver Heaviside : a maverick of electrical science / Basil Mahon. by Mahon, Basil. Prometheus Books, 2017. Call #: 621.3092 H442m Subjects Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925.   Electrical engineers -- Great Britain -- Biography.   Electrical engineering -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.   Electrical engineering -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9781633883314 (hc.) Alternate title:  Oliver Heaviside : a maverick of electrical science Description:  288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes:  "Originally published in the UK in 2009 as Oliver Heaviside: maverick mastermind of electricity by the Institution of Engineering and Technology"--Title page verso. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  Oliver Heaviside (1850 -1925) may not be a household name but he was one of the great pioneers of electrical science: his work led to huge advances in communications and became the bedrock of the subject of electrical engineering as it is taught and practiced today. His ideas and original accomplishments are now so much a part of everyday electrical science that they are simply taken for granted; almost nobody wonders how they came about and Heaviside's name has been lost from view. The story of this extraordinary though often unappreciated scientist. The author interweaves details of Heaviside's life and personality with clear explanations of his many important contributions to the field of electrical engineering. He describes a man with an irreverent sense of fun who cared nothing for social or mathematical conventions and lived a fiercely independent life. His achievements include creating the mathematical tools that were to prove essential to the proper understanding and use of electricity, finding a way to rid telephone lines of the distortion that had stifled progress, and showing that electrical power doesn't flow in a wire but in the space alongside it. At first his ideas were thought to be weird, even outrageous, and he had to battle long and hard to get them accepted. Basil Mahon is the author of The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Biography 621.3092 H442m Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Biography 621.3092 H442m Adult books Checked out Jul 21, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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