Oliver Heaviside
Subtitle: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age
Edition: Johns Hopkins Paperback Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780801869099
Subjects: Biography: general; History of science; Science/Mathematics; Engineering - General; Technology; Electrical Engineering (General); Engineers; Biography / Autobiography; History; Heaviside, Oliver,; Scientists - General; Science / General; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; 1850-1925; Biography; Electric engineers; England
First sentence: England takes great pride and pleasure in her eccentrics; as the Spanish-born philosopher and poet George Santayana wrote in his 1922 The British Character, "England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies."