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From Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude (ISBN0-87942-238-6), p. 60. Photograph is reprinted courtesy of the IEEE in London (as stated in the credits in the back of the book, p. 318), but its age implies that it's public domain. Scanned on an Epson Perfection 1250 at 400dpi, cleaned up (some text was showing through the back) in Photoshop, reduced to grayscale, and saved as JPG using the 'Save for Web' optimizer.
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2004-07-28 00:58 Grendelkhan 550×672× (68050 bytes) This is William Henry Preece, from ''Oliver Heaviside: Sage in Solitude'' ({{ISBN|0-87942-238-6}}), p. 60. The photograph is reprinted courtesy of the IEEE in London (as stated in the credits in the back of the book, p. 318), but its age implies that it's pub
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