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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)OJL/1/445
TitleGeorge Winchester
Extent2 items
Date1925
Description/1 Manuscript letter to Oliver Lodge from George Winchester [Professor of Physics at Rutgers College, New Jersey], written from Rutgers College Department of Physics, 19 October 1925. Winchester commends Lodge on his book, 'Ether and Reality', and explains that he has used Lodge's idea of 'contact' to teach his Mechanics class for years. However, Winchester also queries Lodge's use of the term 'temperature' when referring to space, since the lack of molecules in space make 'temperature' a 'meaningless' word.

/2 Copy of typescript letter from Oliver Lodge to George Winchester, 3 November 1925. Lodge responds to Winchester's criticism, explaining his reasoning for using the term 'temperature'.
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