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How Radio Waves Work

INTRODUCTION

This paper is about radio waves and the discovery of it. This paper was complete in partial fulfillment of the course requirements of NASC 2100 as assigned by our instructor at Shorter College, Professor Joe B. Campbell.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

I went to the East Marrietta branch library to find the book The Age of Electronic Messages. I searched the Google internet database for How Stuff Works about Radio Spectrum I also researched Wikipedia for detailed information on Heinrich Hertz. I also searched the Galileo search engine, but did find anything that I could use for this paper.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

Heinrich Hertz was a student of Dr. Herman von Helmholtz. Hertz was fascinated with the meteorology and found himself occupied with the theory of electromagnetic. In 1864, James Maxwell had a theory of electromagnetic waves being transmitted by sparks. In 1886, Heinrich Hertz proved that electricity can be......

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