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Heinrich Häerts' Unifying Theories
In 1887, Heinrich Häerts in Germany produces the first convincing experimental demonstration that there are electromagnetic waves and that they do behave the way light behaves. Within another decade to 15 years, that experimental technology had been turned into commercial technology by Markone and his Royal Navy sponsors. In other words, men and coming after Maxwell were able to turn this extraordinarily rich bag of philosophy, mathematics, techniques, textbooks into a series of fantastically powerful technologies.