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Oliver Lodge, an Uncommon card
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge was an English physicist and electrical engineer whose investigations into electromagnetic radiation contributed to the development of radio.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 72
- Power
- 147
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 147 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Oliver Lodge quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Oliver Lodge card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He identified EMR independent of ______ Hertz's proof.
Answer
Heinrich. He identified EMR independent of Heinrich Hertz's proof. From the Oliver Lodge article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In his ____ Royal Institution lecture, The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors, Lodge's demonstrations on methods to transmit and detect radio waves included an improved early radio receiver he named the coherer.
Answer
1890s. In his 1894 Royal Institution lecture, The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors, Lodge's demonstrations on methods to transmit and detect radio waves included an improved early radio receiver he named the coherer. From the Oliver Lodge article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He identified EMR independent of Heinrich Hertz's proof.
- In his 1894 Royal Institution lecture, The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors, Lodge's demonstrations on methods to transmit and detect radio waves included an improved early radio receiver he named the coherer.
- His work led to his holding key patents in early radio communication, his "syntonic" patents.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Oliver Lodge article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 72: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Oliver Lodge (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Lafayette Ltd., CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
