Oliver Lodge
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS 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 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.
Oliver Lodge was born in 1851 at Penkhull in what is now StokeonTrent, and educated at Adams Grammar School, Newport, Shropshire. He was the eldest of eight sons and a daughter of Oliver Lodge later a ball clay merchant at Wolstanton, Staffordshire and his wife, Grace, ne Heath . Sir Olivers siblings included Sir Richard Lodge , historian Eleanor Constance Lodge , historian and principal of Westfield College, London and Alfred Lodge , mathematician.
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