Email
to Professor Danielle George.
Congratulations on
your IET post of President.
I have waited for
you to be president for a few months before approaching you.
I am aged 84, and
concerned that problems due to the failure of my relationship with the IET will
be exacerbated with my death.
Dear Professor
Danielle George,
While writing this
email, I have come to realise that as President, you will not have the time
needed to look into what I have to tell you. I think you will need to delegate
to someone in the IET to deal with it. They will need to be senior, with some
executive power.
Eleven minutes
into your inaugural address http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/iee.htm
you mentioned Oliver Heaviside's papers held by the IET. They will
include letters from his best friend Searle. Searle's nephew gave me the Heaviside
to Searle mirror of the IET's letters from Searle to Heaviside. I was recently
invited to come down to the IET, and the Searle to Heaviside letters -
temperature and humidity controlled - were laid out before me.
The leading
experts on Heaviside during the half century when he was silenced were Josephs
and Gossick.
I have the approx.
two feet cube box of Heaviside memorabilia http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x48k.htm given
to me by Searle's nephew the Reverend Timmins. This includes Einstein writing
to Searle asking him to introduce him to Heaviside, photographs, Heaviside's
comments on Einstein "Einstein the joker",
https://www.oliver-heaviside.com/letters-from-heaviside-to-bjerknes/
; http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x162.pdf
Heaviside's tie http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x6cx.pdf ,
and 200 pages of letters from Heaviside to Searle, the reverse of the
Searle-Heaviside letters owned by the IET. Heaviside had been eclipsed, and
Timmins told me the IEE and Cambridge library refused to come and see the box,
and he planned to destroy the contents next winter. I also have a great deal of
further material given to me by H J Josephs, who co-published with Searle the
IEE 1975 anniversary discussion of Heaviside, a copy of which is in the Searle
box. (Searle used to sleep at midday. Part of his agreement to research and
write for the IEE publication was that the IEE provide him with a secretary and
a bed.) I edited and published Searle's unpublished biography of
Heaviside, which was in manuscript form in the Searle box.
http://forrestbishop.mysite.com/OHM/Oliver%20Heaviside%20The%20Man%20G%20F%20C%20Searle.pdf
http://www.forrestbishop.mysite.com/OHM/Heaviside_the_Man.htm .
My co-author
Malcolm Davidson and I visited Josephs many times. The IET has one of the two
unpublished copies of Heaviside's biography by Searle. I also went to the USA
to see the other leading Heaviside expert, Gossick.
http://ivorcatt.co.uk/z0101.html .
In my own publications, I continually refer to Heaviside.
http://www.ivorcatt.org/digihwdesignp65.htm
. My work matches Heaviside's.
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x5cz2.htm .
I look forward to
hearing from your representative, who could come to see "The Searle
Box" here in St. Albans. I could come (without the box) to London to see
you or your representative.
My work has been
silenced by Peer Review by the IET, except for something by my co-author, the
late Dr. Lynch, a doyen of the IEE http://www.ivorcatt.uk/y7aiee.htm ;
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x5bv.htm
.
Also once there was a
peer reviewed IET attack on one of my books. http://ivorcatt.co.uk/9_review.htm
, but my work is now in the leading Royal Society journal http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/yak.htm .
However, on a single occasion Dettmer of the IEE did publish in the IEE
commentary on the £16 million project which developed "Catt Spiral",
which came to market with acclaim.
http://www.ivorcatt.org/icrns86jun_0003.htm ;
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/anamartic.pdf
Ivor Catt
tel. 01727 864257
9.12.2020
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/bytheway.pdf
http://www.ivorcatt.co.uk/x862oh.pdf
p434; "By the way, is there such a thing as electric current?" –
Oliver Heaviside.
http://forrestbishop.mysite.com/OHM/Oliver%20Heaviside%20The%20Man%20G%20F%20C%20Searle.pdf