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- noun English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)
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Examples
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"Heaviside" (see last line of Byron's note) was the surgeon in attendance at the duel between Lord Falkland and Mr.A. Powell.
Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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What drives the production is the desire to know who will ascend to the Heaviside Layer.
James Scarborough: "Cats," Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2011
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What drives the production is the desire to know who will ascend to the Heaviside Layer.
James Scarborough: "Cats," Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2011
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On this memorable night (solemn and rapturous, squalid and magical) Old Deuteronomy (Clent Bowers) appoints one cat to ascend to the Heaviside Layer, reincarnated.
James Scarborough: "Cats," Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2011
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On this memorable night (solemn and rapturous, squalid and magical) Old Deuteronomy (Clent Bowers) appoints one cat to ascend to the Heaviside Layer, reincarnated.
James Scarborough: "Cats," Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2011
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Actually, thinking about quantum mechanics, I actually would have drawn an Heaviside step function …
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A footnote on Nahin: Anyone who has taught a course on the history of radio and has a cat named Heaviside has to be a great writer.
Rules for Time Travelers Sean 2009
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Royal surgeon by 1790, at the Eumalian Club Heaviside mixed with the artistic and literary elite: Boswell, Johnson, Reynolds.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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And to prove it there was a testicle in the museum of Dr. John Heaviside, who had been present at the removal.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Royal surgeon by 1790, at the Eumalian Club Heaviside mixed with the artistic and literary elite: Boswell, Johnson, Reynolds.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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