Excerpt from The Design and Construction of a Practical Wireless Telegraph Station: Thesis
Perhaps the direct cause which started him on the road to his investigations was the accidental discovery that the discharge of a Leyden jar or induction 0011 through a coil of ihsulated wire would incite induced currents in a similar coil provided there was a spark gap in the first. This then gave a method of detecting electric waves in space.
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