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University of Liverpool Special Collections & Archives: 2026-10-04

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Found [web]

  • "30 research notebooks and associated correspondence, 1874-1913 of Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge".
  • Contents:
  • student notes from lectures by W. K. Clifford and O. M. F. E. Henrici
  • research notes and graph plottings
  • 303 ff. of manuscript notes and 44 printed items (offprints, proofs)
  • 30 letters or postcards from correspondents including Davies, Larmor and FitzGerald
  • "two photographs of the Ether Machine at Liverpool: with Lodge, George Hall and Benjamin Davies"
  • The papers have been digitised in Wiley Digital Archives: British Association for the Advancement of Science, a subscription product.
  • Lodge's own annotated copy of Maxwell, An Elementary Treatise on Electricity (1881), is at SPEC Y88.3.184.
  • Related material is in the Rathbone Papers and the University Archives.
  • The page links to a finding aid ("Finding aid for Oliver Lodge papers") and to "Digitised Oliver Lodge papers" (https://manuscriptsandmore.liverpool.ac.uk, "The Digitised Papers of Oliver Lodge", 8 Jan 2021). Neither was opened in this run.

Bearing

  • Priority 1 and 4: the laboratory notebooks up to 1913 should hold the raw readings of the 1892-97 whirling-machine runs (claim 5).
  • They should also hold the November 1893 magnetic-drift runs, which the 1907 paper says are "recorded in my laboratory note-book for November 1893". Larmor's and FitzGerald's letters bear on the dense-ether idea (claims 2-3).
  • Next run: open the finding aid and the "Digitised Papers" blog. Check whether any notebook images are free outside Wiley.