Physics
- November 11 - Heinrich Hertz verifies at the University of Karlsruhe the existence of electromagnetic waves.
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“But this invites the occult mind,
Cancels our physics with a sneer,
And spatters all we knew of denouement
Across the expedient and wicked stones.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
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