History
The first waveguide was proposed by J. J. Thomson in 1893 and experimentally verified by Oliver Lodge in 1894; the mathematical analysis of the propagating modes within a hollow metal cylinder was first performed by Lord Rayleigh in 1897. (McLachan, 1947.)
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