
What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Oliver Heaviside Hon M.I.E.E. F.R.S. 1850-1925 Electrical engineer and mathematician lived here 1897-1909 Recorded plaque organisation: Newton Abbot Civic Society, Institution of Electrical Engineers.
Oliver Heaviside was a self-taught electrical engineer and mathematician who made foundational contributions to the field of telecommunications, including the formulation of vector calculus and the prediction of the existence of the ionosphere.
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