Abstract
ONE of the greatest triumphs of the school of philosophy founded by Bacon is, doubtless, the discovery and theoretical and experimental development of electromagnetic oscillations. In this, as in most other matters in the science of electricity, the foundation stone was laid by Faraday, in his conception that the medium between electrically charged bodies, and between bodies carrying electric currents, was the seat of the strains and stresses set up by the said electrical disturbances. The subsequent development is, nowadays, common knowledge. It will suffice to refer simply to Maxwell's mathematical formulation, in 1873, of Faraday's conceptions, and the hypothesis that the electromagnetic strains in the medium travelled at a definite speed, depending on the permeability and specific inductive capacity of the medium.
Radio-Telegraphy.
By C. C. F. Monckton. Pp. xvii + 272. (London: A. Constable and Co., Ltd., 1908.) Price 6s. net.
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G., C. Radio-Telegraphy . Nature 78, 505–506 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078505a0
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