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Michelson's letter to Lord Rayleigh from Cleveland, March 6, 1887. Lord Rayleigh, Proc. London Math. Soc., 9, 21 (1877).

Only such corrections and additions have been introduced as seemed, in Lord Rayleigh's judgment, to be really called for. They are in great measure derived from Clerk Maxwell's later writings.

Other researchers did concentrate on this part of the spectrum, and microwaves were not to be studied seriously again for decades. In 1897, Bose was invited by Lord Rayleigh (who had been one of his ...

Little change tonight, as it will remain dry and cloudy throughout with thick cloud lingering overhead. A slightly colder night. Sunday Tomorrow will be another cold, dry and cloudy day, with high ...

Passengers at Luton and Leagrave railway station – and nearly 100 others across the South East – will soon be able to use ...

The c2c stations in south Essex adopting this technology from February 2, include Basildon, Benfleet, Chalkwell, East Tilbury ...

The delayed expansion of London-style contactless payments across more stations outside London will come into effect next ...

For nearly three quarters of a century it was supposed that we knew all about the composition of the air, but in 1892 Lord Rayleigh found that a globe filled with atmospheric nitrogen weighed more ...

The expansion of a beloved franchise is always exciting, and the new film The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is a great example. Though narratively and visually distinct from both The ...

Essex Fire and Rescue confirmed they attended the blaze which took place on Hambro Hill roundabout in Rayleigh, shortly after 6am. They added no one had been injured during the incident ...