No. He was content to be able to generate radio waves
and then detect them all the way across the room.
Heinrich Hertz.
Dr. Heinrich Hertz
Radio waves were first predicted by mathematical work done in 1865 by James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell noticed wavelike properties of light and similarities in electrical and magnetic observations. He then proposed equations that described light waves and radio waves as waves of electromagnetism that travel in space. In 1887, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated the reality of Maxwell's electromagnetic waves by experimentally generating radio waves in his laboratory.
Guglielmo Marconi (Marchese Guglielmo Marconi), an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. By 1899, he flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel, and two years later received the letter "S", telegraphed from England to Newfoundland. This was the first successful trans-Atlantic radiotelegraph. Wikipedia has a good article on this Nobel Prize winner, and a link is provided.
The German Physicist Heinrich Hertz was the first to generate electromagnetic radiation (radio waves) and detect them on the other side of the laboratory. He did that in 1888, when Benjamin Franklin had been dead for 98 years.
With the photoelectric effect, that was explained by Einstein. Which he won a Nobel Prize for in Physics
Heinrich Hertz.
The existence of electromagnetic waves was first confirmed by Hertz
Dr. Heinrich Hertz
Heinrich Hertz
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz.
In 1887, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated the reality of electromagnetic waves by experimentally generating radio waves in his laboratory.
Heinrich Hertz. Hertz established that electromagnetic waves had the properties of light and confirmed Maxwell's Theory that Light and Electromagnetism are the same.
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
The hertz is named after Heinrich Rudolf Hertz who proved that electromagnetic waves did exist. The measurement of one gigahertz is the equivalent of 1,000,000,000 hertz.
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
The word 'hertz' comes from Heinrich Rudolph Hertz, a German physicist who discovered the electrical waves (cycles), as well as the photo-electric effect.