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Maxwell unified electromagnetism into a propagating wave. That was the big leap. Before that, things were disparate. Hertz proved it experimentally, and Heav
by madengr 8y ago
Maxwell unified electromagnetism into a propagating wave. That was the big leap. Before that, things were disparate.
Hertz proved it experimentally, and Heaviside turned it into an engineering discipline.
- tntn 8y agoThis is true of the mathematics, but it's worth noting that Faraday had already proposed EM waves ~30 years earlier based on his intuitive understanding.
- jbay808 8y agoAnd had rejected the aether, on the basis that it was unimaginable that any medium could propagate transverse waves in all directions but not allow longitudinal waves.