Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925
Oliver Heaviside letters, 1918-1919.
Collection includes 4 letters by Heaviside from Homefield, Torquay, to B. A. Behrend, Brookline, Mass. regarding Behrend's desire to honor Heaviside's work and Heaviside's reaction to Behrend's offer. Also, includes 2 lists of items which were found by James E. Brittain in the Clemson University Behrend Papers relating to Oliver Heaviside. One list is entitled "List of Items in File Entitled: Behrend (B.A.) Collections-Oliver Heaviside." The other list entitled "Lists of Items in Notebook Entitled 'Notes on Oliver Heaviside.'"
Physicist (mathematical physics and electrical engineering). Telegraph operator, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England (1870-1874); self-employed as physicist and electrical engineer from 1874. Founder of cable telegraphy and discoverer of the "Heaviside" layer in the upper atmosphere also known as the ionosphere.
Behrend, B. A. (Bernhard Arthur), 1875-
Physicists -- Correspondence.
Physicists. lcsh
Brittain, James E., 1931-
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Clemson University. Libraries. Special Collections. Senator Strom Thurmond Institute Building, Clemson, SC 29634-3001, USA