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English: Resonator antenna that German physicist Heinrich Hertz used as a radio wave detector in his first experiments that demonstrated the existence of radio waves. It consists of a helix of brass wire in the shape of a ring, with a spark gap between the ends. It probably functioned as a quarter wave antenna. When the radio waves produced by his spark gap transmitter were at the resonant frequency of the loop of wire, it produced a high voltage between the ends of the wire, which jumped across a tiny spark gap. The spark gap (bottom of loop) was a micrometer with which he could measure the length of the spark, to get an estimate of the field strength of the waves. |
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| Source | Retrieved December 30, 2014 from Rollo Appleyard, "Pioneers of Electrical Communication 5: Heinrich Rudolf Hertz" in Electrical Communication magazine, International Standard Electric Corp., New York, Vol. 6, No. 2, October 1927, p. 70, fig. 9 on http://www.americanradiohistory.com |
| Author | Rollo Appleyard |
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