Heinrich Hertz came to Karlsruhe in 1885 and used his time here to build on the work of the Scottish physicist James Maxwell. “Maxwell was the ingenious professor who was able to formulate the laws of ...

All forms of electromagnetic radiation, whether they're called waves or rays, are generated by particles in motion. In a radio signal, for example, negatively charged electrons quickly move back ...

1857: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz is born. The physicist will make key discoveries about the transmission of electromagnetic waves and eventually give his name to a pervasive measurement of the ...

Hertz died at age 36 or 37 (accounts vary), and he did achieve fame during his lifetime for his research in electromagnetic theory, St. Andrews notes. But it was later that his work truly came to ...

Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation best-known for their use in communication technologies, such as television, mobile phones and radios. These devices receive radio waves and ...

Hertz was able to successfully prove the existence of electromagnetic waves, so Google's Wednesday logo is replaced by waves bearing the search giant's signature colors.

UP to the present date, short electromagnetic waves have been generated only by the method of the Hertz vibrator. This method offers very serious difficulties when we try to produce ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have managed to make sound waves travel only in one direction. In the future, this method could ...