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It would be so cool if that's the way how radio technology was discovered.
by diegoperini 8y ago
It 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.