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Chapters: Charles Babbage, John Ambrose Fleming, Oliver Heaviside, Frank Whittle, Thomas Newcomen, Thomas Savery, Joseph Whitworth, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, James Hargreaves, James Brindley, Henry Maudslay, Timothy Hackworth, Matthew Boulton, William Stanley, Frederick W. Lanchester, Carol Vorderman, James Holden, Archibald Low, Harry Ricardo, Desmond Norman, Robert Dudley, Styled Earl of Warwick, Lofty England, Matthew Murray, Lyndon Wainwright, George Temple-Poole, Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, Leonard George Chapman, Ross Brawn, Arthur Cotton, Bryan Donkin, William Yolland, George Lanchester, George Jennings, Thomas Phillips, Edmund Sharpe, Christopher Snowden, Oliver Simmonds, Richard William Howard Vyse, David Roberts, Robert Whitehead, Samuel Bentham, Julius Beerbohm, John Penn, Benjamin Outram, Edward James Reed, Clement Wilks, John Hawkshaw, Harvey Postlethwaite, Joseph Bramah, Joseph Clement, Norman de Bruyne, Thomas Brown Jordan, George Julius, Andrew Karney, George Parker Bidder, Daniel Adamson, H. J. Round, Urban H. Broughton, Christopher Cockerell, Henry Winstanley, William Henry White, Peter Elleray, Richard V. Southwell, David J. Farrar, John Hopkinson, Robert Rawlinson, William Froude, Robert Lochner, Charles Hesterman Merz, Kate Bellingham, Richard Peacock, Wildman Whitehouse, C. F. Varley, Charles Tilston Bright, Jock Clear, Owen Saunders, Owen Finlay Maclaren, Derman Christopherson, Stuart Turner, Eaton Hodgkinson, John Robinson Mcclean, Alfred de Courcy, Joseph Day, Sir Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet, Samuel Tolver Preston, John Barber, Ian Fells, Granville Bradshaw, Alex Moulton, Francis Thomas Bacon, Roger Ainsworth, Samuel Brown, Francis Rodwell Banks, Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside, Hertha Marks Ayrton, George Rennie, George Sorocold, Josiah Hornblower, Sarah Buck, Claude W. Kinder, Henry Deane, John Wigham Richardson, Joseph Jagger, Sarah Guppy, Frederick Handley Page, Tim Hu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=250764 ... Read more

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Oliver Heaviside was an inventor who had a good insight into the mathematical basis behind much electrical engineering of the late 19th century. He was also able to apply his theoretical knowledge to practical problems; however, he seems to have had but a single patent. The author seeks to explore the reasons behind Heaviside's lack of patents to protect and exploit his inventions. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Hippolyte Fontaine, George Westinghouse, Claude Shannon, Jay Miner, Lucien Gaulard, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Gustav Kirchhoff, Walter Schottky, Frank J. Sprague, Balthasar Van Der Pol, Marcel Deprez, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld, Jack Kilby, Zénobe Gramme, Henri de France, André Étienne Postel-Vinay, Louis Winslow Austin, Marc Chauvierre, Antonio Pacinotti, Maurice Leblanc, Léon Charles Thévenin, Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah, Paul Boucherot, Seymour Cray, John Ambrose Fleming, Ernst Alexanderson, Otto Julius Zobel, Julien Dulait, Harry Nyquist, Marius Lavet, Max Knoll, James Bichens Francis, Joseph Béthenod, André Blondel, Alfred Potier, John Bertrand Johnson, Paul-Gustave Froment, Robert Metcalfe, Robert Adler, Mikhaïl Dolivo-Dobrovolski, Hans Behn-Eschenburg, Bob Widlar, Galileo Ferraris, Kees A. Schouhamer Immink, Jonas Wenström, Paul Nicolaïewich Jablochkoff, Thomas Edward Penard, Eric Tigerstedt, Ernest Mercadier, Rudolf Kompfner, Hans R. Camenzind, Edward Lawry Norton, Reinhold Rudenberg, Slobodan Ćuk, Harold Stephen Black, Henri de Bellescize, George Perlegos. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Thomas Edison (Thomas Alva Edison) (11 février 1847 à Milan Ohio - 18 octobre 1931 à West Orange, New Jersey), fondateur de General Electric, l'un des premiers empires industriels mondiaux, est reconnu comme l'un des inventeurs américains les plus importants et les plus prolifiques, revendiquant le nombre record de 1093 brevets. Pionnier de l'électricité, diffuseur, vulgarisateur et perfectionneur de technologies d'avant-garde, . Il est parfois surnommé le magicien de Menlo Park, ville rebaptisée en son honneur en 1954. Il naît le 11 février 1847 à Milan dans l'Ohio....http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER 1LOUTLINE OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC CONNECTIONS. Electric and Magnetic Force; Displacement and Induction; Elastivity and Permittivity, Inductivity and Reluctivity. § 20. Our primary knowledge of electricity, in its quantitative aspect, is founded upon the observation of the mechanical forces experienced by an electrically charged body, by a magnetised body, and by a body supporting electric current. In the study of these mechanical forces we are led to the more abstract ideas of electric force and magnetic force, apart from electrification, or magnetisation, or electric current, to work upon and produce visible effects. The conception of fields of force naturally follows, with the mapping out of space by means of lines or tubes of force definitely distributed. A further and very important step is the recognition that the two- vectors, electric force and magnetic force, represent, or are capable of measuring, the actual physical state of the medium concerned, from the electromagnetic point of view, when taken in conjunction with other quantities experimentally recognisable as properties of matter, showing that different substances are affected to different extents by the same intensity of electric or magnetic force. Electric force is then to be conceived as producing or being invariably associated with a flux, the electric displacement; and similarly magnetic force as producing a second flux, the magnetic induction.If E be the electric force at any point and D the displacement, we haveD = cE; (1)and similarly, if H be the magnetic force and B the induction, thenB = /H (2)Here the ratios e and / represent physical properties of the medium. The one (/-), which indicates capacity for supporting magnetic induction, is its inductivity; whilst the oth... ... Read more

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A 3 volume collection of papers by an influential engineer
This is not a single book it is a set of 3 hardbacks:

Vol 1 is 504 pages and consists of Heaviside's papers published in the Electrician of 1891 to 1893. Vol II is 547 pages and consists Heaviside's papers published in the Electrician of 1894 to 1898. Vol III is 666 pages and consists of Heaviside's papers in the published Electrician of 1900 to 1912. It also contains papers published in Nature during this same interval. Additionally there are 140 pages of unpublished notes discovered after Heaviside's death.

Heaviside evidently published a lot of material and was a very influential engineer both in his time and subsequently. His views on Electromagnetic Theory, and in particular on transmission line theory, shaped the whole development of the subject. His arguments with the influential "experts" of his day are made public in these republished papers. Not all of his criticisms were polite and this certainly comes across in these papers!

Heaviside was a man of very limited financial resources and yet still managed to achieve scientific greatness and esteem from the great men of his time. The other men of great influence, but little ability, with whom he crossed swords, all seem to have fallen by the wayside, leaving Heaviside's viewpoint as dominant. Somehow Heaviside never translated his intellectual and scientific ability and contributions into enough finances to support him. He was desperately poor throughout his life, even having the gas supply to his home cut off during winter months due to non-payment of bills. It is therefore fitting that these volumes be read and appreciated by future generations as his reward. You may of course have heard of the Heaviside operator in calculus, the Heaviside step function, the Kennelly-Heaviside layer in the ionosphere, the Heaviside-Feynman formula for the radiated field of a moving charged particle. There is a lot of other stuff which did not get Heaviside's name on it, such as the telegrapher's equation.

Throughout, Heaviside tries to explain things in easy to understand terms using simple notation. He hated the wretched gothic fonts used by Maxwell in the famous treatise (and on this point anyone who has ever read Maxwell will easily agree!) and he introduced the bold faced fonts for the D, E, B and H vector fields that are still used today.

This collection of papers is an honest and non-pompous piece of work. It is actually pleasurable to read and to compare against more modern writers on the same subject. The reader will perhaps forgive Heaviside for his lack of (false) modesty. After all, this fame is evidently the greater part of what he personally received from his publications by way of a reward. ... Read more

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PREFACE. This work was originally meant to be a continuation of the scries "Electromagnetic Induction and its Propagation," published in The Electiician in 1885-6-7, but left unfinished. Owing, however, to the necessity of much introductory repetition, this plan was at once found to be impracticable, and was, by request, greatly modified. The result is something approaching a connected treatise on electrical theory, though without the strict formality usually associated with a treatise. As critics cannot always find time to read more than the preface, the following remarks may serve to direct their attention to some of the leading points in this volume. The first chapter will, I believe, be found easy to read, and may perhaps be useful to many men who are accustomed to show that they are practical by exhibiting their ignoranco of the real meaning of scientific and mathematical methods of enquiry. The second chapter, pp. 20 to 131, consists of an outline scheme of the fundamentals

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CONTENTS; [The dates withi1~ brackets ure the dates of first publicatiOltJ; CHAPTER I; I NTRO 1> VCT ION; SECTION PAGE; 1- 7; 8-13; [J(tn2, 1891] I'relimiuary Remarks 1; [Jnn 16, 1891J On the nature of~Anti-Mathematici::ll1s and; of Mathemati~'l Metbods of Enquiry; 14 -16 [JaI~ 30,1891] Description of !jome Electromagnetic Resulta; deduced by Mathematical Reasoning; CHAPTER II; OUTLINE OF THE ELECTnOMAGNRTIC CONNECTIONS; (Pages 20 to·131); 7; 14; SFI'TIOS PAGE; 20 [Peb IS,1891] Flcctric and Magnetic Force; Displacement and; Induction; Blastivity and l~ermitlivitYl Inductivity and Reluctivity; ·20; 21 E)~ctric Ind Magnetic Energy 21; 22 Eolotl'opic :Belations 22; 23 Distinction between Absolute and llelative Permittivity or; Inductivity 23; 24 Disaipation of Energy 'l'he Conduction-current; Conductivity; and Resistivity 'l'he Blectric Current 24; 25 :r'ictitious Magnetic Conduction~current and Real Magnetic; Curr ... Read more

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CHAPTER IX. WAVES FROM MOVING SOURCES. Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderate § 450. The following story is true. There was a little boy, and his father said, "Do try to be like other people. Don't frown." And he tried and tried, but could not. So his father beat him with a strap; and then he was eaten up by lions. Reader, if young, take warning by his sad life and death. For though it may be an honour to be different from other people, if Carlyle's dictum about the 30 millions be still true, yet other people do not like it. So, if you are different, you had better hide it, and pretend to be solemn and wooden-headed. Until you make your fortune. For most wooden-headed people worship money; and, really, I do not see what else they can do. In particular, if you are going to write a book, remember the wooden-headed. So be rigorous; that will cover a multitude of sins. And do not frown. There is a time for all things : for shouting, for gentle speaking, for silence; for the washi

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME III; [The dates within brackets are the dates of first publication, or of printing All up to p 158 was published in " The Electrician " ; the rest of the articles in the Journals indicated; but if only printed at the dates given, they are now first published, 1912]; CHAPTER IX WAVES FROM MOVING SOURCES; (Pages 1 to 130) ; SECTION' PAGE; 450 [Feb 23, 1900]' Adagio Andante Allegro moderate 1; 4f)L [Feb 23, WOO] Simple Proof of Fundamental Property of a ; Plane Wave 3; 452 [Feb 23, 1900] The General Plane Wave 4; 453 [Feb 23, 1900] Generation of Waves by a Plane Source of ; Induction 6; 454 [Feb 23, 1900] Generation of Waves by a Plane Source of ; Displacement S; 455 [Feb 23, 1900] Comparison of Electromagnetic with Aerial ; Waves 9; 450 [March 23, 1900] Waves ending perpendicularly upon a ; Conductor Conduction and Convection 10; 457 [March 23, 1900] Oblique Reflection at a Conducting Surface with H tangenti ... Read more

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CHAPTER V. MATHEMATICS AND THE AGE OF THE EARTH. Mathematics is an Experimental Science. § 223. That the study of the theory of a physical science should be preceded by some general experimental acquaintance therewith, in order to secure the inimitable advantage of a personal acquaintance with something real and living, will probably be agreed with by most persons. After, however, the general experimental knowledge has been acquired, accompanied with just a sufficient amount of theory to connect it together and render its acquisition easier and more interesting, it becomes possible to consider the theory by itself, as theory. The experimental facts then go out of sight, in a great measure, not because they are unimportant, but because they become subordinate to the theory in a certain sense, and, we might also add, because they are fundamental, and the foundations are always hidden from view in well-constructed buildings. So it comes about that a great theoretical work like Maxwell

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II; [The dates within brackets are the dates of first publication]; CHAPTER V; MATHEMATICS AND THE AGE OF THE EARTH (Pages 1 to 29); 8kctioh pagk; 223 [Nov 23, 1894] Mathematics is an Experimental Science 1; 224 Rigorous Mathematics is Narrow, Physical Mathematics Bold; and Broad 4; 225 Physical Problems lead to Improved Mathematical Methods 8; 226 [Dec 14, 1894] " Mathematics-and Mathematics" Remark-; able Phenomenon 10; 227 The Age of the Earth Kelvin's Problem 12; 228 Perry's Modification Remarkable Result 14; 229 Cooling of an Infinite Block composed of Two Materials 16; 230 Large Correction for Sphericity in Perry's Problem 18; 231 Remarks on the Age of the Earth 19; 232 [Dec 21,1894] Peculiar Nature of the Problem of the Cooling; of a Homogeneous Sphere with a Resisting Skin 20; 233 Cooling of a Body of Variable Conductivity and Capacity but; with their Product Constant 22; 234 Magnitude o ... Read more

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Englishman OLIVER HEAVISIDE (1850-1925) left school at 16 to teach himself electrical engineering, eventually becoming a renowned mathematician and one of the world's premiere authorities on electromagnetic theory and its applications for communication, including the telegraph and telephone. Here in three volumes are his collected writings on electromagnetic theory-Volume I was first published in 1893. This is a catalog of the bulk of his postulations, theorems, proofs, and common problems (and solutions) in electromagnetism, many of which had been published in article form. Part scientific history-including references to some contemporary criticisms, long since shown to be poorly based, of Heaviside's scholarship-and part guide to understanding a complex applied science, this work shows both the genius and the eccentricity of a man whose work includes precursory theories to Einstein, and revolutionary principles that today are the commonly assumed truths in the field of electrical engineering. ... Read more

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Volume: 2Publisher: London, "The Electrician" printing and publishing company, limitedPublication date: 1894Subjects: Electromagnetic theoryVector analysisElectric wavesEarth -- AgeNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Englishman OLIVER HEAVISIDE (1850-1925) left school at 16 to teach himself electrical engineering, eventually becoming a renowned mathematician and one of the world's premiere authorities on electromagnetic theory and its applications for communication, including the telegraph and telephone. Here in three volumes are his collected writings on electromagnetic theory-Volume II was first published in 1899. This is a catalog of the bulk of his postulations, theorems, proofs, and common problems (and solutions) in electromagnetism, many of which had been published in article form. Part scientific history-including references to some contemporary criticisms, long since shown to be poorly based, of Heaviside's scholarship-and part guide to understanding a complex applied science, this work shows both the genius and the eccentricity of a man whose work includes precursory theories to Einstein, and revolutionary principles that today are the commonly assumed truths in the field of electrical engineering. ... Read more

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Englishman OLIVER HEAVISIDE (1850-1925) left school at 16 to teach himself electrical engineering, eventually becoming a renowned mathematician and one of the world's premiere authorities on electromagnetic theory and its applications for communication, including the telegraph and telephone. Here in three volumes are his collected writings on electromagnetic theory-Volume III was first published in 1912. This is a catalog of the bulk of his postulations, theorems, proofs, and common problems (and solutions) in electromagnetism, many of which had been published in article form. Part scientific history-including references to some contemporary criticisms, long since shown to be poorly based, of Heaviside's scholarship-and part guide to understanding a complex applied science, this work shows both the genius and the eccentricity of a man whose work includes precursory theories to Einstein, and revolutionary principles that today are the commonly assumed truths in the field of electrical engineering. ... Read more

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Volume: 1Publisher: London, "The Electrician" printing and publishing company, limitedPublication date: 1894Subjects: Electromagnetic theoryVector analysisElectric wavesEarth -- AgeNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more