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Heinrich Hertz

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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894) was a physicist of Germany

in the 19th century. His experiments proved that electric signals can travel through open air, as had been predicted by James Maxwell

and Michael Faraday, which is the basis for the invention of radio.


See also Hans Christian Ørsted, Guglielmo Marconi.


Reference: Short biography



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