Today’s Google doodle celebrates the birthday of Heinrich Hertz, who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves.  It occurs to me that this is an accomplishment whose scale is often overlooked. Without Hertz, we wouldn’t have wi-fi, iPhones, radio, Kinect, remote controls for our TVs or really anything that sends a signal to something else.
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Today’s Google doodle celebrates the birthday of Heinrich Hertz, who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves. 

It occurs to me that this is an accomplishment whose scale is often overlooked. Without Hertz, we wouldn’t have wi-fi, iPhones, radio, Kinect, remote controls for our TVs or really anything that sends a signal to something else.

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