Definition of Oliver heaviside

1. Noun. English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925).

Exact synonyms: Heaviside
Generic synonyms: Electrical Engineer, Physicist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oliver Heaviside

Olfersia cervina
Olga
Olga Korbut
Oligocene
Oligocene epoch
Oligoplites
Oligoporus
Oligoporus leucospongia
Olimbos
Olive
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hazard Perry
Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Stone
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Oliverian
Oliverians
Olivia
Olivier
Ollague
Ollari
Ollendorf
Ollie
Ollier
Ollier's disease

Literary usage of Oliver heaviside

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by Institution of Electrical Engineers Radio Section (1880)
"oliver heaviside—ON THE EFFECT OF FAULTS ON THE SPEED OF WORKING OF CABLES. («Philosophical Magazine," Vol. 8, No. i6,pp. 60-74, and No. 47, pp. ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1902)
"... and that is, as to the developments which have been made in following out the theorems originally propounded by oliver heaviside sixteen years ago, ..."

3. The Telephone and Telephone Exchanges: Their Invention and Development by John E. Kingsbury (1915)
"There is some reason to believe that oliver heaviside contributed to this ... his ' Electro-Magnetic Theory,' 1893,2 Mr. oliver heaviside claimed for his ..."

4. The Scientific Writings of the Late George Francis Fitzgerald by George Francis Fitzgerald, Joseph Larmor (1902)
"oliver heaviside has cleared those away, has opened up a direct route, ... oliver heaviside had extended this to the whole of electromagnetics. ..."

5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1892)
"By oliver heaviside. 2 vols. 8vo. Professor Oliver Lodge. Pioneers of Science. By Professor OLIVER LODGE. With Portraits and other Illustrations. ..."

6. Transactions by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1902)
"Is it not true that others, following as best they could, the instructions of oliver heaviside placed self-induction in the line? Is it not true that others ..."

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