‎"LODGE, OLIVER.‎
‎Experiments on the Absence of Mechanical Connection between Ether and Matter. Received January 19, - Read March 4, 1897.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1897). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1897, Volume 189 - Series A. - Pp. 149-166, textillustrations. Clean and fine.‎

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‎First appearance of a main paper recording further importent experiments - Lodge had already in 1893 in an ingenious experiments showed that the ether was not carried along with moving matter - with the ""ether-drag"", giving further evidence for the postulate that moving matter could not drag the ether along with it. Like the Michelson-Morley experiments, Lodge's paper contributed to the decline of the ether theory and to set the stage for the theory of relativity.‎