See "William Crookes and the Commercialisation of Science" by William H. Brock Crooks is an interesting character. He was one of the few who witnessed the "lo

See "William Crookes and the Commercialisation of Science" by William H. Brock Crooks is an interesting character. He was one of the few who witnessed the "lost" experiments of David Huges so he had a preview of what was coming in radio technology. see page 263 at goo.gl/J1fiSA and https://www.le.ac.uk/ebulletin-archive/ebulletin/features/2000-2009/2008/06/nparticle.2008-06-18.html https://www.le.ac.uk/ebulletin-archive/ebulletin/features/20... and https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2010/10/22/ubi-crookes-ibi-lux/ https://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2010/10/22...