From obscurity to Enigma. The work of Oliver Heaviside, 1872-1889 (Q1899189)

There are four chapters, five appendices, a bibliography of about 100 items (no manuscripts) and a 5\ 1/2 page index; the Heaviside manuscript collection at IEE, London, has been used, but no description is furnished. The first chapter (35pp.) introduces Heaviside. The second (30pp.) outlines the problem of design and analysis of electric circuits in telegraphic receivers and transmitters, from 1872 to 1882; Chapter Three (115pp.) covers 1882-1885 when Heaviside wrote four long papers to teach himself Maxwell's field theory. The fourth and final chapter (105pp.) covers 1885-1891, again on telegraphy, telephony and circuits designed for distortionless transmission, but there is more on comparison of Heaviside's ideas with those of his contemporaries. Book is closely argued, not heavily mathematical.