The Net Advance of Physics
RETRO

Being a Compendium of Materials Pertinent to Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy in the Long Nineteenth Century
(1750 - 1925)

for the use of students, historians, revivalists, steampunks, and all interested enquirers

Net Advance RETRO is a part of The Net Advance of Physics. Computer support for Net Advance is furnished by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ("Boston Tech")

VIDEO OF THE MONTH (2017 July):
Farewell Song of the Last Telegrapher
Posted by Rajiv Gupta 2013 July 17:
"This song was written and sung by Mr. Medhilal, an employee of Grand Post Office, Lucknow, India on the last day of Telegram Service. Mr. Medhilal was Morse code operator in GPO. Now he has been shifted to another department."

EDITOR'S BLOG
New entry every third Monday, when possible. See also list of all entries since 2012 Oct. 15.

2017 July 16: Added to the Science Poetry Page verse by:

• W. E. Channing
• A. H. Clough
• S. T. Coleridge
• G. Crabbe
• R. W. Dixon
• E. Gosse
• T. Hardy
• L. Hunt
• H. Melville
• P. B. Shelley
• H. Smith
• J. Smith
• J. B. Tabb

Norman Hugh Redington
E-Mail: redingtn at mit full-stop edu

In memory of Professor John D. Runkle, second president of MIT and outspoken advocate of the "Mens et Manus" philosophy.