On the Propagation of Electric Waves through Wires in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science 28, 1889, pp. 117-127 [FIRST APPEARANCE IN ENGLISH OF HERTZ'S PAPER ON THE PROPAGATION OF ELECTRIC WAVES IN A WIRE]
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN ENGLISH OF HERTZ’S PAPER ON THE PROPAGATION OF ELECTRIC WAVES IN A WIRE. “This discovery and its demonstration led directly to radio communication, television and radar” (Dibner, Heralds of Science, 71). The most dramatic prediction to emerge from James Clerk Maxwell’s 1865 theory..... More