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Self-taught Victorian physicist celebrated with English Heritage blue plaque
The physicist, mathematician and electrical engineer, Oliver Heaviside, has been commemorated with a blue plaque, English Heritage announced today (22 April 2022). Heaviside’s biographer, Paul Nahin, once noted that his work on how to make a decent telephone cable plays a vastly greater role in our everyday lives than does the work of Einstein. The plaque marks the terrace house on Camden Street that Heaviside once described as “heaven in comparison” to his family’s previous house. It was here that the budding Victorian scientist continued with his self-education after leaving school at 16 and where he later worked on his ground-breaking interpretation of James Clerk Maxwell’s Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, bridging the gulf between the theory of telecommunciations and its practice.
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England’s cannons are at risk, English Heritage warned today (Thursday 29th March) after the charity identified that due to sea spray and salty air, historic guns in coastal locations face a twenty-fold increase in their rate of deterioration.
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Planetrees Roman Wall - Hadrian's Wall
A 35-metre length of narrow Wall on broad foundations, reflecting a change of policy during construction concerning the thickness of the wall.
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Significance of Birdoswald Roman Fort
The archaeological significance of Birdoswald has placed the site firmly in the forefront of research on Hadian’s Wall.
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A description of Down House, now filled with many family portraits, furniture and personal possessions from Charles Darwin’s day.
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History of Chesters Bridge Abutment
The remains of the two successive Roman bridges at Chesters encapsulate some of the main developments in the history of Hadrian’s Wall.
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DE GAULLE, General Charles (1890–1970)
Blue Plaque commemorating President of te French National Commitee, General Charles Gaulle, at 4 Carlton Gardens, St James's, London SW1Y 5AA.
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Layout and Facilities at Gardener's House
Layout and Facilities at Gardener's House Holiday Cottage, Wrest Park