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THIS death of Sir Oliver Lodge, full of years and honour, recalls brief episodes in the early development of wireless telegraphy. One remembers Lodge describing how he and his assistant at Liverpool were experimenting with a Hertzian spark vibrator: another such vibrator, a duplicate of it, happened to be at the distant end of a long lecture bench, and they noticed an extraordinary development of receptive sparking in it. With the simplicity of genius Lodge recognized that this was due to resonance, for the period of vibration in the receiver must be the same as that of the identical transmitter. One result was a master patent, which was for long a thorn in the side of practical adventurers. (The Bell telephone happens to be another instance of reciprocity of emitter and receiver.)
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LARMOR, J. Origins of Electric Transmission by Resonance. Nature 146, 459 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146459a0
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