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This book tells the complete story of this extraordinary though often unappreciated scientist. The author interweaves details of Heavisides life and personality with clear explanations of his many important contributions to the field of electrical engineering. He describes a man with an irreverent sense of fun who cared nothing for social or mathematical conventions and lived a fiercely independent life.
His achievements include creating the mathematical tools that were to prove essential to the proper understanding and use of electricity, finding a way to rid telephone lines of the distortion that had stifled progress, and showing that electrical power doesnt flow in a wire but in the space alongside it.
At first his ideas were thought to be weird, even outrageous, and he had to battle long and hard to get them accepted. Yet by the end of his life he was awarded the first Faraday Medal.
This engrossing story will restore long-overdue recognition to a scientist whose achievements in many ways were as crucial to our modern age as those of Edisons and Teslas.
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Many people have played a part in the creation of this book. I am lucky to have had generous help from Alan Heather, who is a great-great-grandson of Oliver's uncle, George Heaviside. Alan has provided personal memorieshis mother recalled that Oliver was an awkward old cuss but a brilliant manand a great deal of information about the family and about Oliver's life in Devon.
Everyone who is interested in Heaviside today owes a great debt to the Chelsea Publishing Company and others for keeping their editions of his collected Electrical Papers and his treatise Electromagnetic Theory in print over the years, so giving direct and easy access to the great man's thoughts. Thanks are similarly due to the Institution of Engineering and Technology for maintaining their fine collection of Heaviside's notebooks, letters, and papers, and I am especially grateful to archivists Anne Locker and Asha Gage for their efficient and friendly help with research.
I am also indebted to fellow writers, especially to Bruce Hunt for his illuminating account of Heaviside's relationships with Hertz, Lodge, and FitzGerald in The Maxwellians, to Ido Yavetz for his scholarly insight into Heaviside's work in From Obscurity to Enigma, and most of all to Paul Nahin for his monumental biography Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age. Nahin's book is a treasure house of information about Heaviside and his contemporaries. Why, then, write another book? I hope that mine will complement Nahin's and others by presenting a compelling story and so bringing Oliver to a wider audience than he has so far enjoyed.
Nahin acknowledges his own debt to Professor Ben Gossick, who amassed a vast collection of material in preparation for a biography of Heaviside but died in 1977 before completing it. Profound thanks are also due to Ivor Catt for editing and publishing G. F. C. Searle's intimate recollections of his friend Oliver in Oliver Heaviside, the Man, a little book that shines a direct and penetrating light on Oliver's character.
I am grateful to Harold Allan and to Bill and Margaret Crouch, who have with patience and perception read through drafts and suggested improvements, and to Ernie Freeman, Bruce Hunt (again), and Dominic Jordan for their encouragement and advice.
The task of describing the historical background to Heaviside's work succinctly has been simplified by John Wiley and Sons allowing me to include in the narrative several short passages from my earlier book The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell.
The IET published the first edition of this book, titled Oliver Heaviside, Maverick Mastermind of Electricity, in 2009 and have now generously reverted the rights, so allowing this second edition to be published. Steven L. Mitchell, at Prometheus Books, took on the production of this second edition with enthusiasm. I heartily thank him for this, and my thanks extend to the editorial staff at Prometheus for their expert help and guidance in seeing the book through to publication.
The final words of thanks go to my wife, Ann, for putting up with Oliver as well as me while the two editions of this book were under construction.
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