Oliver Lodge

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of, and holder of key patents for, radio. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Hertz's proof and at his 1894 Royal Institution lectures, Lodge demonstrated an early radio wave detector he named the "coherer". In 1898 he was awarded the "syntonic" patent by the United States Patent Office. Lodge was Principal of the University of Birmingham from 1900 to 1920.

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General Info

Male

Date of Birth

June 12nd, 1851

Age

174

Birth Place

United Kingdom, England

Date of Death

August 22nd, 1940

Died Aged