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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)OJL/1/294
TitleH. F. Newall
Extent2 items
Date1897-1921
DescriptionLetters with note identifying name of correspondent, possibly written in Lodge's hand.

/1 Letter from H. F. Newall to Oliver Lodge, written from Madingley Rise, Cambridge, dated 26 June 1897. Newall asks for advice concerning position of [lightning] conductors on a tower, and includes two small diagrams in text. He draws Lodge's attention to a recent paper by Ames and Humphrys.

/2 Letter from H. F. Newall to Oliver Lodge, written from Madingley Rise, Cambridge, dated 16 January 1921. He has been at a meeting of the R[oyal] A[stronomical] S[ociety] where Hale announced his success in measuring the diameter of Alpha Orionis by Michelson's interferometer method. He refers to a discussion at the R[oyal] S[ociety], writing that he should not have expected a helpful explanation from Jeans: 'I have given up hope of help for an honest doubter from those who have swallowed relativity as a creed'.
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