It’s everyday stuff to most of us, but none of this vocabulary would exist if it hadn’t been for Oliver Heaviside, the brilliant but challenging self-taught British electrical engineer and ...

This law says that a voltage step into a cable will have maximum current ... It would take Oliver Heaviside to get a better explanation of what was happening. Intuitively, you can consider that ...

This is the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer, named after Harvard’s Bombay-born Professor Arthur Edwin Kennelly and England’s late (1850-1925) Oliver Heaviside, bookstore keeper who for amusement ...