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The adoption of self-induction by telephony, 1886–1889

Pages 433-461 | Received 19 Oct 1981, Published online: 18 Sep 2006

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  • See, for example Marland E.A. Early Electrical Communication London 1964 H. Sharlin, The Making of the Electrical Age (London, 1963); J. Kieve, The Electric Telegraph—a Social and Economic History (Newton Abbott, 1973). For the basic theory of transmission lines and a useful outline of their later development, see R. A. Chipman, Transmission Lines (New York, 1968).
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  • Cambridge University Library, Kelvin Collection NB 34, Add. MS 7342 July 1852 1 note dated 2 ‘I find …no sensible effect … when the wire is very long (more than 20 or 30 miles I should think) but when it is very short induced currents may be the primary phenomenon’.
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  • As, for example, in Heaviside O. On the Extra Current Electrical Papers I 53 61 (from Philosophical Magazine, 2nd series, 5, 1876), and other early papers by Heaviside.
  • Jordan . 1982 . D. E. Hughes, self-induction and the skin-effect . Centaurus , 24 part 3
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  • Jordan . 1982 . D. E. Hughes, self-induction and the skin-effect . Centaurus , 24 part 3
  • See Marsh J.O. Roberts R.G. David Edward Hughes: inventor and scientist Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 1979 126 929 935
  • Hughes , D.E. 1886 . The Self-Induction of an Electric Current in Relation to the Nature and Form of its Conductor . Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers , 15 January : 7 – 25 . The Discussion sessions are (February, 1886), pp. 27–52 and 53–100.
  • Discussion Hughes D.H. The Self-Induction of an Electric Current in Relation to the Nature and Form of its Conductor Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers January 1886 15 59 59
  • Jordan . 1982 . D. E. Hughes, self-induction and the skin-effect . Centaurus , 24 part 3
  • Heaviside . Electrical Papers , Preface page (ix).
  • Heaviside . Electrical Papers , II 86 – 91 . ‘Electromagnetic Induction and its Propagation, Section 34’ (from The Electrician, December 1886).
  • Heaviside . Electrical Papers , II between May and December 1886, and especially the paper cited in footnote 38.
  • The Institution of Electrical Engineers , London : the Heaviside collection . Heaviside to J. S. Highfield, 5 March 1922.
  • Baker , E.C. 1976 . Sir William Preece, F.R.S. London
  • Appleyard , R. 1939 . The History of the Institution of Electrical Engineers London
  • Discussion Hughes D.E. The Self-Induction of an Electric Current in Relation to the Nature and Form of its Conductor Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers January 1886 15 55 55
  • Preece W.H. Long-Distance Telephony Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers May 1886 15 274 303 [Address and Discussion] (p. 294).
  • Thompson S.P. Telephonic Investigations Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers January 1887 16 42 77 [Address and Discussion] 27 10 and 24 February 81–105, 107–147 (p. 114).
  • This amounted to a campaign by Preece made practicable by improvements in the purity and strength of commercial copper wire. See, for example Preece W.H. On Electrical Conductors Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 1883–4 75 63 105 [Address and Discussion] See also footnote 47, and Tucker (1974), footnote 9.
  • Preece , W.H. 1885 . On the Relative Merits of Iron and Copper Wire for Telegraph Lines . British Association Reports , : 907 – 909 .
  • Preece , W.H. 1887 . On Copper Wire . British Association Reports , : 874 – 874 . A fuller report appears in The Electrician, 19 (1887), 372–3.
  • See Jordan D. E. Hughes, self-induction and the skin-effect Centaurus 1982 24 part 3 and in particular the comments by Fleming and others in the Discussion to the Hughes lecture cited in footnote 34.
  • Preece , W.H. 1889 . Long-Distance Telephony . The Telephone , 1 : 28 – 30 .
  • Jordan . 1982 . D. E. Hughes, self-induction and the skin-effect . Centaurus , 24 part 3
  • Discussion Preece W.H. Long-Distance Telephony Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers May 1886 15 289 289 [Address and Discussion]
  • Preece . 1887 . On Copper Wire . British Association Reports , : 874 – 874 . A fuller report appears in The Electrician, 19 (1887)
  • Pupin , M. 1926 . From Immigrant to Inventor New York Chapter 9. See also M. I. Pupin, ‘Wave Transmission over Non-Uniform Cables and Long-Distance Air Lines’, Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 17 (1900), 445–507, and Brittain, footnote 144.
  • Thomson . 1855 . On the Theory of the Electric Telegraph . Proceedings of the Royal Society , 7 : 382 – 399 .
  • Preece , W.H. and Sivewright , J. 1876 . Telegraphy London
  • Preece . 1883–4 . “ On Electrical Conductors ” . In Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers Vol. 75 , [Address and Discussion]
  • Discussion Preece W.H. Long-Distance Telephony Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers May 1886 15 279 279 [Address and Discussion]
  • The Inaugural Address by Hughes The Self-Induction of an Electric Current in Relation to the Nature and Form of its Conductor Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers January 1886 15 7 25
  • Discussion Preece W.H. Long-Distance Telephony Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers May 1886 15 281 281 [Address and Discussion] see also Discussion, footnote 34, 59 on a London to Newcastle line.
  • Thompson Telephonic Investigations Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers January 16 [Address and Discussion] 27 10 and 24 February 1887
  • Thompson Telephonic Investigations Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers January 16 52 52 [Address and Discussion] 27 10 and 24 February 1887
  • Discussion Preece W.H. Telephonic Investigations Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers January 16 72 72 [Address and Discussion] 27 10 and 24 February 1887
  • Discussion Preece W.H. Telephonic Investigations Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers January 16 82 84 [Address and Discussion] 27 10 and 24 February 1887
  • Discussion Preece W.H. Telephonic Investigations Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers January 16 113 115 [Address and Discussion] 27 10 and 24 February 1887
  • Thomson . 1855 . On the Theory of the Electric Telegraph . Proceedings of the Royal Society , 7 : 383 – 383 .
  • Heaviside . On the Extra Current . Electrical Papers , I 53 – 61 .
  • Discussion Preece W.H. Telephonic Investigations Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers January 16 [Address and Discussion] 27 10 and 24 February 1887, particularly 132–9
  • Preece , W.H. 1887 . On the Limiting Distance of Speech by Telephone . Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers , 16 : 265 – 268 . (individual numbers did not carry the date of issue). Closely similar versions also appeared in The Electrician and in the Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, both on 11 March, and in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 42 (3 March 1887).
  • Preece . 1887 . On the Limiting Distance of Speech by Telephone . Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers , 16 : 265 – 268 .
  • Thomson . 1855 . On the Theory of the Electric Telegraph . Proceedings of the Royal Society , 7 : 386 – 386 .
  • Hockin . 1876 . On the magnitude of the signals received through a submarine cable with various connections at each end, and the best resistance for the recording instrument . Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers , 5 : 432 – 459 .
  • Rayleigh . 1884 . On telephoning through a cable . British Association Reports , : 632 – 632 .
  • Discussion Preece W.H. Long-Distance Telephony Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers May 1886 15 297 300 [Address and Discussion] Blakesley seems to have been the first to suggest in this connection that just as capacitance and self-inductance can be made to offset each other in an ordinary circuit, so it might be the case for transmission lines.
  • Discussion Preece W.H. Telephonic Investigations Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers January 16 138 138 [Address and Discussion] 27 10 and 24 February 1887
  • See, for example van Rysselberghe F. Discussion Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers May 1886 15 291 292
  • ‘Mr. W. H. Preece on the Self-Induction of Wires’, in Heaviside Electrical Papers London 1892 II 160 165 2 vols (previously unpublished). On page 162, paragraph numbered (2), Heaviside pointed out the connection between inductance and capacitance under conditions of good transmission—as one increases, the other decreases.
  • Heaviside . 1892 . Electrical Papers Vol. 2 , ix – ix . London Preface
  • Heaviside Electrical Papers London1892 II 323 324 2 vols ‘On Telegraph and Telephone Circuits’. See particularly the introductory footnote.
  • 1886 . Discussion . Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers , 15 May : 288 – 288 .
  • For example Heaviside Electrical Papers London 1892 II 140 140 2 vols and 150.
  • September 1888 . University College , September , London : Oliver Lodge Collection . Heaviside to Lodge, 24
  • Heaviside . 1892 . Electrical Papers Vol. II , 323 – 324 . London 2 vols
  • See, for example, C.U.L. Kelvin Collection (footnote 18), Add. MS 7342, Preece to Sir W. Thomson, 10 January 1884, complaining of ‘arrant rubbish’ in a paper by H. M. Bosanquet.
  • I.E.E. Heaviside Collection Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review the Heaviside collection London June 1887 Heaviside to the editor 3
  • A. Vaschy described (footnote 21) how he had been unwilling at the time to risk more than a bare statement in the face of general belief in the adverse effect of self-induction: Annales Telégraphiques 1884 11 322 322 3rd series In mid-1887 (footnote 21) he gave a clear account, but Heaviside had anticipated him. It is said (see Berthenod, footnote 146) that he had seen an earlier paper in the subject by Heaviside, but if so he did not refer to it. Vaschy's 1884 papers contain an earlier and more sophisticated version of Preece's KR law for telephony: see ‘Note sur les Transmissions Telephonique’, Annales Telegraphiques, 3rd series, 11, (1884), 185–223.
  • University College , London : Oliver Lodge Collection .
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  • Heaviside Electrical Papers London1892 II 119 124 2 vols ‘Electromagnetic Induction and its Propogation, Section 40’ (from The Electrician, 19 (3 June 1887).
  • Heaviside . 1892 . Electrical Papers Vol. II , 256 – 289 . London 2 vols
  • Heaviside . 1892 . Electrical Papers Vol. II , 289 – 307 . London 2 vols
  • Heaviside Electrical Papers London1892 II 307 323 2 vols (previously unpublished).
  • July 1887 . I.E.E. Heaviside Collection , July , London : the Heaviside collection . Philosophical Magazine to Heaviside, 18
  • Preece , W.H. 1887 . On the Coefficient of Self-Induction in Telegraph Wires . British Association Reports , : 612 – 612 . A fuller report appeared in The Electrician, 19 (16 September 1887), 400–1.
  • Heaviside . Electrical Papers Vol. II , 160 – 165 . London 2 vols
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  • December 1882 . I.E.E. Heaviside Collection , December , London : the Heaviside collection . Biggs to Heaviside, 5
  • October 1887 . I.E.E. Heaviside Collection , October , London : the Heaviside collection . Snell to Heaviside, 12
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  • November 1887 . I.E.E. Heaviside Collection , November , London : the Heaviside collection . Snell to Heaviside, 30
  • November 1887 . I.E.E. Heaviside Collection , November , London : the Heaviside collection . Snell to Heaviside, 30
  • Rayleigh Lord On the Self-Induction and Resistance of Compound Conductors Philosophical Magazine 1886 22 469 500 5th series See pp. 469 and 492.
  • January 1889 . I.E.E. Heaviside Collection , January , London : the Heaviside collection . D. E. Hughes to Heaviside, 18
  • I.E.E. Heaviside Collection the Heaviside collection London June 1887 S. P. Thompson to Heaviside, 9 and 13 June
  • Lodge O. The Protection of Buildings from Lightning Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 1887–8 36 867 874 (the Mann Lectures) 880–93. Some of these spectacular experiments were elaborated and repeated, and became quite famous. See ‘On Lightning, Lightning Conductors and Lightning Protectors’, Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 18 (1889), 386–430 (and plates), 445–80, 482–564, and ‘On the Discharge of a Leyden Jar’, Proceedings of the Royal Institution, 12 (1889), 413–24.
  • Symons , G.J. , ed. 1882 . Lightning Rod Conference London The conference took place in association with the British Association meeting at York, September 1881.
  • Preece said that he had 500,000 lightning conductors under his supervision: see British Association Reports 1888 592 592 cited in footnote 124
  • Jordan . 1982 . D. E. Hughes, self-induction and the skin-effect . Centaurus , 24 part 3
  • Lodge , O. 1887–8 . The Protection of Buildings from Lightning . Journal of the Royal Society of Arts , 36 : 867 – 874 .
  • The Electrician July 1888 21 303 306 13 The letter contains interesting correspondence with D. E. Hughes.
  • Lodge , O. 1888 . On the Theory of Lightning Conductors . The Electrician , 21 August : 435 – 437 . 10
  • September 1888 . U.C.L. Oliver Lodge Collection , September , London : the Heaviside collection . Heaviside to Lodge, 17
  • U.C.L. Oliver Lodge Collection , London : the Heaviside collection . ‘You presented me with a formidable array of “anticipations”. But I cannot see that they are to the point’.
  • Lodge , O. 1888 . Sketch of the Electrical Papers in Section A at the recent Bath meeting of the B.A. . The Electrician , 21 : 622 – 625 . (21 September) and 660–3 (28 September). For a wider background see, for example, O. Lodge, Past Years (London, 1931), and Advancing Science (London, 1931); also W. P. Jolly, Sir Oliver Lodge (London, 1974).
  • Heaviside dedicated to Fitzgerald G.F. Electromagnetic Theory London 1893 3 his 1899 and 1912; reprinted New York: Dover Reprints, 1950).
  • See, for example Golde R.H. Lightning London 1977 2 and Lodge's own admission in O. Lodge, Advancing Science (London, 1931), p. 96.
  • Heaviside Electrical Papers London1892 II 486 488 2 vols ‘On Lightning Discharges, Etc.’ (from The Electrician, (17 August, 1888).
  • See Lightning Rod Conference Symons G.J. London 1882
  • 1888 . Joint Discussion on Lightning Conductor's . British Association Reports , : 591 – 615 . A fuller report appeared in The Electrician, 21 (1888), 644–8 (21 September): this is the one referred to below.
  • 1888 . Joint Discussion on Lightning Conductor's . British Association Reports , : 645 – 645 .
  • 1888 . Joint Discussion on Lightning Conductor's . British Association Reports , : 646 – 646 .
  • 1888 . Joint Discussion on Lightning Conductor's . British Association Reports , : 675 – 675 .
  • 1888 . Joint Discussion on Lightning Conductor's . British Association Reports , : 674 – 674 .
  • 1888 . Joint Discussion on Lightning Conductor's . British Association Reports , : 674 – 674 .
  • 1888 . Joint Discussion on Lightning Conductor's . British Association Reports , : 679 – 679 .
  • September 1888 . University College , September , London : Oliver Lodge Collection . Heaviside to Lodge, 24
  • Lodge . 1888 . Sketch of the Electrical Papers in Section A at the recent Bath meeting of the B.A. . The Electrician , 21 : 662 – 662 . ‘Sketch’
  • See the editorial columns of The Electrician (1888), and the correspondence for October, including a letter from Hertz (pp. 800–1). One unnamed correspondent suggested: ‘The only cure for the “practical” generation is to die off’. See also the more pious sentiments in Empiricism and Science Nature 1888 38 609 611
  • I.E.E. Heaviside Collection the Heaviside collection London June 1889 Hughes to Heaviside, 5 and others about this time. Also the quotation of footnote 165.
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  • Heaviside Electrical Papers London1892 II 488 490 2 vols ‘Practice versus Theory, …’ (from The Electrician, 19 October 1888).
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  • I.E.E., Heaviside Collection the Heaviside collection London July 1894 Rayleigh to Heaviside, 26 Also Whittaker, footnote 146.
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  • See Golde R.H. Lightning London 1977 2
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  • A useful list of British and foreign ‘Maxwellians’ is given by Buchwald J.Z. The Hall effect and Maxwellian electrodynamics in the 1880s Centaurus 1979–80 23 57 99 Part 1 Part 2, 118–62. See page 66.
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  • See the works cited in Oliver Heaviside Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society 1928–9 20 199 220 and Lodge's remark, footnote 112.
  • Whittaker . 1928–9 . Oliver Heaviside . Bulletin of the Calcutta Mathematical Society , 20 : 209 – 209 .
  • Faraday . 1839–1855 . “ On Electric Induction—Associated Cases of Current and Static Effects ” . In Experimental Reasearches in Electricity Vol. 3 , London See also Baker, footnote 41, 51–54. Preece published his notebook record of some of the experiments: W. H. Preece, ‘Self-Induction and Retardation Experiments…’, The Electrician, 22 (1888), 101–2.
  • Discussion Thompson S.P. Telephonic Investigations Journal of the Society of Telegraph Engineers January 1887 16 82 82 [Address and Discussion] 27 10 and 24 February
  • Baker . 1976 . Sir William Preece, F.R.S. 13 – 14 . London
  • See, for example, footnote 71 and his Address to the Institution: Preece W.H. Inaugural Address Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 1893 22 36 76 (p. 61).
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  • Baker . 1976 . Sir William Preece, F.R.S. 54 – 55 . London
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  • Lee , G. 1947 . Oliver Heaviside 11 – 11 . London
  • Heaviside Centenary Volume 4 – 4 . footnote 146
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  • Heaviside . 1892 . Electrical Papers Vol. II , 346 – 346 . London 2 vols
  • Heaviside . 1892 . Electrical Papers Vol. II , 122 – 122 . London 2 vols
  • Preece , W.H. 1889 . Telephonic Communication between London and Paris . Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review , 25 : 318 – 319 . As an instance of the ‘use’ of this law to help in the design of a cable see Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, 20 (1887), 569–70, and D. G. Tucker, ‘The First Cross-Channel Telephone Cable: the London-Paris Telephone Links of 1891’, Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 47 (1974–76), 117–32.

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