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There are stories of people having their orthodontic braces act as a radio antenna. Only the person with the braces would hear something. This writeup is short
by amenghra 8y ago
There are stories of people having their orthodontic braces act as a radio antenna. Only the person with the braces would hear something.
This writeup is short: https://www.recordonline.com/article/20091118/Health/911180324 https://www.recordonline.com/article/20091118/Health/9111803....
There's also a (busted) Mythbusters around picking up radio signals thru fillings.
- diegoperini 8y agoIt would be so cool if that's the way how radio technology was discovered.
- gmueckl 8y agoNo, that was absolutely not what happened. The discovery of radio waves happened in two parts: first, Maxwell completed the fundamental equations for electrodynamics by postulating that a temporally changing electrical field must be creating a magnetic field around it. Otherwise the behaviour of plate capacitors would be inconsistent. This brought the equations into a form that rather obviously allowed the derivation of a wave equation. Then it took about 20 years IIRC until Hertz managed to prove in his lab that these waves exist and can be both created and detected.
- diegoperini 8y agoSorry if my bad grammar gave you the impression I thought that is how it was discovered.