Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2007).
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Oliver Lodge
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge was an English physicist and electrical engineer whose investigations into electromagnetic radiation (EMR) contributed to the development of radio. He identified EMR independent of Heinrich Hertz's proof. In his 1894 Royal Institution lecture, The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors, Lodge's demonstrations on methods to transmit and detect radio waves included an impro…
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science · English physicist and electrical engineer (1851–1940) · physicist · inventor · naturalist · writer · also Oliver Lodge, Oliver, Sir Lodge, Sir Oliver Lodge, Oliver Joseph Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Lodge
Born 12 June 1851 · Died 22 August 1940 · Q379816
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1940· 1 entry
Died 1940-08-22.
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1936· 1 entry
Devant in his book Secrets of My Magic revealed the trick method he had used
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1932· 1 entry
Won Faraday Medal (1932).
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1920· 1 entry
Lodge and his wife settled in Normanton House, near Lake in Wiltshire, a few miles from Stonehenge
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1919· 1 entry
Won Albert Medal (1919).
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1915· 1 entry
Visited several mediums and wrote about the experience in a number of books, including the best-selling Raymond; or, Life and Death (1916)
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1913· 3 entries
Career landmark: chairperson (1913–1913).
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Called the Lodge Fume Deposit Company Limited (changed in 1919 to Lodge Fume Company Limited and in 1922, through agreement with the International Precipitation Corporation of California, to Lodge Cottrell Ltd)
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The biologist Ray Lankester criticized the Spiritualist views of Lodge as unscientific and misleading the public
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1911· 1 entry
For another 7 years Marconi agreed to settle the patent dispute, purchasing the syntonic patent in 1912 and giving Lodge an (honorific) position as "scientific adviser"
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1909· 1 entry
Published the book Survival of Man which expressed his belief that life after death had been demonstrated by mediumship
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1903· 1 entry
Founded Lodge Bros, which eventually became known as Lodge Plugs Ltd
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1902· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Bachelor (1902).
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1901· 1 entry
Was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society
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1900· 1 entry
Lodge moved from Liverpool back to the Midlands and became the first Principal of the newly-founded University of Birmingham, where he remained until his retirement in 1919
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1899· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1899–1901).
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1898· 2 entries
Won Rumford Medal (1898).
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Lodge gained a patent on the moving-coil loudspeaker, utilizing a coil connected to a diaphragm, suspended in a strong magnetic field
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1889· 1 entry
Lodge was appointed President of the Liverpool Physical Society, a position he held until 1893
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1887· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1887).
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The Royal Society of Arts asked Lodge to give a series of lectures on lightning, including why lightning rods and their conducting copper cable sometimes do not work, with lightning strikes following alternate paths, goi
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1886· 1 entry
Lodge developed the moving boundary method for the measurement in solution of an ion transport number, which is the fraction of electric current carried by a given ionic species
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1881· 1 entry
To up take the post of Professor of Physics and Mathematics at the newly-established University College Liverpool
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1879· 2 entries
And 1880, paving the way for later experimental success
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Was appointed Professor of Physics in University College Liverpool in 1881 and was Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1919
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1877· 2 entries
Studied at University College London (1873–1877).
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Lodge married Mary Fanny Alexander Marshall at St George's Church in Newcastle-under-Lyme
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1875· 1 entry
This time to the nearby Watlands Hall at the top of Porthill Bank between Middleport and Wolstanton (demolished in 1951)
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1873· 1 entry
James Clerk Maxwell published A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, and by 1876 Lodge was studying it intently
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1865· 1 entry
The 14-year-old Lodge left his schooling and joined his father's business (Oliver Lodge & Son) as an agent for B
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1851· 1 entry
Born 1851-06-12.
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