Oliver Heaviside

Page in progress and claimed by Lee Martin Frazer.

State, in your own words, the main idea for this topic

Oliver Heaviside (18 May 1850 – 3 February 1925)

Biography

Oliver Heaviside was born to poverty in 1850 in the London slum of Camden Town. Camden Town is the same slum distinguished author Charles Dickens was from. Heaviside was the child of water color artist and wood engraver Thomas Heaviside and Rachel West. At a young age Oliver contracted the scarlet fever which left him partially deaf. He was a top student in all subjects except geometry; however, by the age of 16 Heaviside had dropped out of school and began to teach himself.

Despite being born of little means, Heaviside was lucky because his maternal uncle by marriage was Charles Wheatstone. Wheatstone was a well-known inventor and electrical scientist who co-invented the telegraph among other accomplishments. Wheatstone took great interest in his nephews and was likely involved with Oliver’s first job as a telegraph operator.

Mathematics

How do we visualize or predict using this topic. Consider embedding some vpython code here Teach hands-on with GlowScript

Electrical Engineering

Be sure to show all steps in your solution and include diagrams whenever possible

Connectedness

1. How is this topic connected to something that you are interested in?
2. How is it connected to your major?
3. Is there an interesting industrial application?

See also

Are there related topics or categories in this wiki resource for the curious reader to explore? How does this topic fit into that context?

Further reading

• Heaviside, O. (2003). Electrical Papers: American Mathematical Society.
• Heaviside, O. (1950). Electromagnetic Theory. Oliver Heaviside. Complete and Unabridged Edition of Volume I... II and III with a Critical and Historical Introduction by Ernst Weber: Dover publications.
• Heaviside, O. (1892). On the Forces, Stresses, and Fluxes of Energy in the Electromagnetic Field: Harrison and Sons, Printers.
• Mahon, B. (2009). Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity: Institution of Engineering and Technology.
• Nahin, P. J. (2002). Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Yavetz, I. (2011). From Obscurity to Enigma: The Work of Oliver Heaviside, 1872–1889: Birkhäuser Basel.

External links

• http://www.britannica.com/biography/Oliver-Heaviside
• http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201002/physicshistory.cfm
• http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-focus/technology-history/did-you-know-someone-else-wrote-maxwells-equations
• http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Heaviside.html
• http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/65/11/10.1063/PT.3.1788
• http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi426.htm
• http://www.theiet.org/resources/library/archives/biographies/heaviside.cfm
• https://archive.org/details/electricalpapers02heavrich
• https://archive.org/details/electromagnetict01heavrich

References

February 3,1925: Death of Oliver Heaviside. (2010). APS News, 19(2). Retrieved from http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201002/physicshistory.cfm

Category: Notable Scientists