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Show AUTHOR OF SCIENTIFIC CATECHISM Sir Oliver lodgo, maker of tho scientific cnto-r r 1 chlsm submitted to n gathering of clergymen In London, Is ono of England's lending scientists. ' I Ills forto Is electricity, upon which ho has spent ' -g g many hundreds of hours nn.l h.it written u vast H f-jJK' WA number of papers. Many discoveries nro tl'io to' tjj' V" his scientific Insight, and us far hack as IS!) I ho. Jl A I domonBtrnted n method of wireless telegraphy, si . yiJrC which, howovur, did not uttruct much notice out-Ljl . f ifjaui sldo scientific circles. His career has Veil ono W y.x JH9sSk of continuous hard wotk. Ho went to Newport WJm&fKf i!n Grammar school and afterwards helped his fathor HKamli W m In business. Ho burnt tho midnight oil nnd ob- AijiU i(iM talnod his B. Sc. nt tho Uindon unlvurRrty by 5"vii- evening study. Ha has obtnlneil many dogreos ZKk slnco thon and hns lecelved many honors Ho 1 sssv Is perhaps best known ns a teacher and ho tins examined for tho sclonra and art dopftrtment nnd for tho Iuulon university. Ho was until roront'y pro feasor of physics nt tho University college, Liverpool, and now holds a slnilliu ofilco at Birmingham. He Is ono of n family of six. all of whom aro wo! known In tho world of utters. |