The Invention of Radio (In Our Time)
1895 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the invention of radio. In the early 1860s the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell derived four equations which together describe the behaviour of electricity and magnetism. They predicted the existence of a previously unknown phenomenon: electromagnetic waves. These waves were first observed in the early 1880s, and ove
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Around 1895
- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Einstein's miracle year (Annus Mirabilis) (1905)
- Wright Brothers' first powered flight (1903)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)