how did guys like Marconi discover or knew radio waves exists without ever seeing them?
In: Physics
He just looked at it from a different angle than anyone else had before. The existence of radio waves was already known, but no-one else was really looking at the science of them from a communications/ engineering perspective. I think it was Hertz who actually got credit for discovering the pheomenon of radio waves, but didn’t quite fully understand it yet. When Hertz died, a lot of his journals became public and Marconi had a vision, so he just devoured all that new information and ran with it.
In short, he was just one of those rare visionaries who tackled something far outside the box. They’re always crazy, until they’re right.
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