"Useless" Inventions-Rudolf Hertz

Aviator

Elder Lister
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was the first guy to conduct an experiment to prove that you could transmit electromagnetic waves through space in 1888. When asked about the importance of the experiment, Herr Heinrich said…

“It is of no use whatsoever [...] this is just an experiment that proves Maestro Maxwell was right — we just have these mysterious electromagnetic waves that we cannot see with the naked eye. But they are there."

When asked what the practical application of this was, he said…
“Nothing, I guess”

Today, radio is an essential technology in global telecommunication networks, and the transmission medium underlying modern wireless devices.

 

mzeiya

Elder Lister
Inventions are no longer a norm...maybe because there's no need to reinvent the wheel or are we just a bit dumber kikikikiiii
 

Modest

Lister
Inventions are no longer a norm...maybe because there's no need to reinvent the wheel or are we just a bit dumber kikikikiiii
If we were to decipher and go to detail, maybe the only invention was the engine and the car/train/vehicles were just modifications of horse drawn cart.

Many inventions would fall into that category. That said computers and many 19/20th century inventions will undergo evolution for a sure fact.Just as the industrial revolution brought in mechanisation of day to day utilities.
 

QuadroK4000

Elder Lister
High school gani? Music Fest of 2007 was held in Nakuru and I made out with a fine Taita gyal kwa school bus ikiwa parked Menengai. Ningekuwa na rubber that day then virginity would've been lost
I always excelled in class 1118J.

..We always started from Christ the King pale opposite Afraha.. Then ukishinda hapo..... Eldoret or Kitale.... Ukishinda hapo... KICC...

At one time we got a place at Moi Avenue primary school for the days that we were to spend in Nairobi, and Maasai girls H.S also opted for the same coordinates.

:)
 

Kasaman

Elder Lister
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was the first guy to conduct an experiment to prove that you could transmit electromagnetic waves through space in 1888. When asked about the importance of the experiment, Herr Heinrich said…

“It is of no use whatsoever [...] this is just an experiment that proves Maestro Maxwell was right — we just have these mysterious electromagnetic waves that we cannot see with the naked eye. But they are there."

When asked what the practical application of this was, he said…
“Nothing, I guess”

Today, radio is an essential technology in global telecommunication networks, and the transmission medium underlying modern wireless devices.

The standards at that time... Wacha tu..... Mary Mount Girls... Njoro Girls.... Nyakiambi Girls.... weeeeeueeeh
Larmudiac sec. pia not forgetting nakuru girls
 
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