LEADER 03951nam 2200457 450 001 9910794030503321 005 20230822234524.0 010 $a0-8229-8731-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000011254372 035 $a(OCoLC)1157915243 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse82251 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6207729 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011254372 100 $a20200825d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 02$aA pioneer of connection $erecovering the life and work of Oliver Lodge /$fedited by James Mussell and Graeme Gooday 210 1$aPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :$cPittsburgh University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 291 pages) : $cillustrations 225 1 $aScience and culture in the nineteenth century 311 $a0-8229-4595-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction. Oliver Lodge : continuity and communication / James Mussell and Graeme Gooday -- Communication, (dis)continuities, and cultural contestation in Sir Oliver Lodge's past years / David Amigoni -- Becoming Sir Oliver Lodge : the Liverpool years, 1881-1900 / Peter Rowlands -- Lodge in Birmingham : pure and applied science in the new university, 1900-1914 / Di Drummond -- The alternative path : Oliver Lodge's lightning lectures and the discovery of electromagnetic waves / Bruce J. Hunt -- Lodge and mathematics : counting beans, the meaning of symbols, and Einstein's blindfold / Matthew Stanley -- The retiring popularizer : lodge, cosmic evolution, and the new physics / Bernard Lightman -- The forgotten celebrity of modern physics / Imogen Clarke -- Glorifying mechanism : Oliver Lodge and the problems of ether, mind, and matter / Richard Noakes -- The case of Fletcher : shell shock, spiritualism, and Oliver Lodge's Raymond / Christine Ferguson -- Beyond Raymond : the theology of spiritualism and the changing landscape of the afterlife in the Church of England / Georgina Byrne -- Oliver Lodge's ether and the birth of British Broadcasting / David Hendy -- "Body separates: spirit unites" : Oliver Lodge and the mediating body / James Mussell. 330 $aSir Oliver Lodge was a polymathic scientific figure who linked the Victorian Age with the Second World War, a reassuring figure of continuity across his long life and career. A physicist and spiritualist, inventor and educator, author and authority, he was one of the most famous public figures of British science in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A pioneer in the invention of wireless communication and later of radio broadcasting, he was foundational for twentieth-century media technology and a tireless communicator who wrote upon and debated many of the pressing interests of the day in the sciences and far beyond. Yet since his death, Lodge has been marginalized. By uncovering the many aspects of his life and career, and the changing dynamics of scientific authority in an era of specialization, contributors to this volume reveal how figures like Lodge fell out of view as technical experts came to dominate the public understanding of science in the second half of the twentieth century. They account for why he was so greatly cherished by many of his contemporaries, examine the reasons for his eclipse, and consider what Lodge, a century on, might teach us about taking a more integrated approach to key scientific controversies of the day. 410 0$aScience and culture in the nineteenth century. 606 $aScientists$zGreat Britain$vBiography 615 0$aScientists 676 $a509.22 702 $aMussell$b James 702 $aGooday$b Graeme 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794030503321 996 $aA pioneer of connection$93679709 997 $aUNINA