ABSTRACT
This chapter explains a condensation of Hertz's account, with additional elucidation of a few points. People who are particularly interested in Hertz's experiments will find his book a real delight. Hertz has himself described how he came to make his discovery, in his book Electric Waves. Faraday's discovery of diamagnetism is one example. On the other hand, with Faraday's discovery of diamagnetism, the relation between the existing theories and the phenomena was unclear, as there was no convincing model of the substructure of a diamagnetic substance. Faraday's alternative of giving up Newtonian theory as a whole had never been spelled out in detail; the idea had been lost, for Maxwell and Thomson held to Newtonian dynamics. However, as it turned out, scientists were reluctantly and unknowingly pushed in the direction of Faraday's ideas. The reflected wave then interfered with the incoming one, producing the standing wave.
