| Description | Correspondence with Sir Joseph Larmor [1857-1942, theoretical physicist], with note identifying correspondent and refering to Lodge's autobiography 'Past Years'.
/1 Letter from Oliver Lodge to Joseph Larmor, written from Normanton House, Lake, Salisbury, dated 27 January 1925. Lodge asks for Larmor's opinion: 'Do you object to a hollow electron, an ether vacuum, sustained against the Poincare pressure by its electric tension?' He discusses his theory in relation to electron size and gravitation. He comments on Larmor's work on curvature rays round the earth. He discusses properties of the ether including elasticity, density, inertia, and pressure. With pencil annotations (possibly in Lodge's hand).
/2 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Joseph Larmor, dated 8 June 1925. With pencil amendments. Lodge discusses M. J. M. Hill's spherical vortex. He hopes Larmor will take up the subject of vortexes.
/3 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Joseph Larmor, dated 10 June 1925. Lodge agrees that Larmor's early work should be republished. He writes that Larmor does not get the credit he deserves because he does not grind his results down, as Lorentz does, to make them easier to understand. With handwritten paragraph in ?shorthand. |