THE ETHER OF
SPACE

BY

SIR OLIVER LODGE, F.R.S.

D.Sc. Lond., Hon. D. Sc. Oxon. et Vict.
LL.D. St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Aberdeen
Vice-President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
Rumford Medallist of the Royal Society
Ex-President of the Physical Society of London
Late Professor of Physics in the University College of Liverpool
Honorary Member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia;
of the Manchester Philosophical Society; of the Batavian
Society of Rotterdam; and of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna

Principal of the University of Birmingham

ILLUSTRATED

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1909

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