In the last SolderSmoke podcast we took a look at some of the giants of radio. Here is one fellow we missed: Oliver Heaviside. Hackaday has an interesting profile of him:
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/30/oliver-heaviside-rags-to-recognition-to-madness/#more-330784
Like many of the giants we looked at, Oliver definitely had his problems, and didn’t end well. But he deserves a lot of respect and credit for his many innovations and discoveries. I didn’t know that he is the one responsible for those 88 mH coils in my junk box.
There’s definitely a yin and yang to the Knack and it appears OM Heavyside suffered from a severe case of it, good, bad and ugly.
When I was a kid, someone offered me a book about the Earth and the Ether. I became a radioamateur and an engineer. 45 years later, I remember this Kennely Heaviside layer. Thank you for looping the (88 mH inductive) loop with this article. Olivier – F1SOC