NOTEBOOKS of experiments and lectures by David Edward Hughes, F.R.S., electrician and inventor, 1878-1886. In the course of researches in telephony Hughes seems to have anticipated the discovery of the Hertzian waves (cf. the experiments of Nov. 1879-Feb. 1880, and the note dat. Nov. 1897 inserted at vol. I, f. 230 b, referring to the presence of Prof. Stokes and others at those early demonstrations). The lectures (1883-1886) were delivered before various scientific Societies and are printed...
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Natural Science: Notebooks of experiments, etc., by D. E. Hughes, electrician: 1860-1886. David Edward Hughes, electrician and inventor: Notebooks of experiments, etc.: 1860-1886. Diaries and Memoranda: D. E. Hughes, electromagnetic experiments, etc.: 1860-1886.