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James Clerk Maxwell first theoretically predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves, however David Edward Hughes is partially credited as he made the first successful radio transmission.

Heinrich Hertz is the man who actually proved Maxwell's theory of the existence of electromagnetic waves.

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