Heinrich Hertz's "Electric Waves" is a foundational physics text detailing experiments on electromagnetic waves. This work confirmed Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism and laid the groundwork for radio technology.
Sources for Heinrich Hertz — Electric Waves
Heinrich Hertz — Electric Waves in Physics
Held in the Physics chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Albert Einstein — Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1916)
- Albert Einstein — Time, Space, and Gravitation (1919)
- Lord Rayleigh — The Theory of Sound (1877)
- Isaac Newton — Opticks (1704)
- Lucretius — On the Nature of Things (c. 50 BCE)
- Marie Curie — Radioactive Substances (1903)
- Christiaan Huygens — Treatise on Light (1690)
- Michael Faraday — Experimental Researches in Electricity (1839)
- James Clerk Maxwell — A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873)
- Galileo Galilei — Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)
- Ernst Mach — The Science of Mechanics (1883)
- Wilhelm Röntgen — Röntgen Rays (1899)
- Ibn al-Haytham — Book of Optics (Kitāb al-Manāẓir) (c. 1021 CE)
- Galileo Galilei — Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)