Electric Waves: Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with Finite Velocity Through Space

by Heinrich Hertz

$1,900 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

“This discovery and its demonstration led directly to radio communication, television and radar” Dibner, Heralds of Science, 71 . For electricity and magnetism Faraday's anticipations and Clerk-Maxwell's splendidly developed theory have been established on the sure basis of experiment by Hertz's work, of which his own most interesting account is now presented to the English reader by is translator, Professor D.E. Jones. -Lord Kelvin, from the preface

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