ABSTRACT
As a young investigator, Ernest Rutherford's mind having turned to the matter during his period of instruction as a student, he worked, first, in New Zealand, on the subject of high-frequency magnetization and electrical oscillations. Rutherford's first experimental researches were carried out in a cellar, normally used as a cloakroom by students, in Canterbury college. Rutherford's explanation of the two oppositely polarized layers of surface magnetization which he had discovered was based on his assumption that the oscillatory magnetizing field employed was heavily damped. Rutherford's magnetic investigations, carried out in Canterbury College, occupied him from 1893 to 1895, in which latter year he proceeded to Cambridge with a scholarship awarded by the 1851 Royal Commission. An outstanding feature of Rutherford's continuation of his radio work at Cambridge was the way in which he was able to increase the distance between his sender and receiver.
