There is much jealousy among very intelligent, competitive, proud, vain people. A lot of jealousy. It is very suspicious that Hertz died in this manner - it is not without possibility that he was poisoned. It seems very odd that he became ill **after** his discovery was published and taking the Director of Physics job at the young age of 32.

Kathy: what Dr. Felton does for history you do for Physics. I am facinated by these things since very early childhood. I now work in the field of power generation and control including marine and industrial diesel and control and power managemen I also design ang build custom equipment for this market, including alternative energy. . I am lucky I didn't electrocute myself or burn down the house when I was a kid! You present these videos in a magnificent way , dense packing information in minutes that took much time and effort to learn. You are planting the Seed Corn of a crop of future Engineers and Physicists here. I most certainly wish these vids were available in 1964 when I was eight. I would have gobbled them up as eagerly as I do now! But I made do with old US Navy manuals that are almost as good as your vids. They also presented the history and theory behind the development of the technology we use. They are Very Well Written and Illustrated. I was lucky to find and get a hold of them! Your Brilliant Vids Are Even Better! I Really wisk I had access to these when I was a kid!!! WOW!

@@Greg_Chase Are there any suspects? Could he have ‘zapped’ himself? How many electrochemical/physics researchers were injured because of lack of safety precautions?

​@@fare2muddlin Considering his young age at which he attained a fairly prestigious career position - and had made the breakthrough at proving Maxwell's "electromagnetic waves must exist" idea - and also considering the intellectual toil and dead-ends suffered by most scientists - I feel safe in speculating that his early demise may not have been natural. The timing of it is the noteworthy part. After he developed the first wireless transmitter experiment that could be duplicated and shown to be correct by others. After attaining a fairly prestigious career position. But no way to know for sure. Having tea several times a week with a jealous colleague once he was settled in his new position. Was their opportunity to get at him? Probably. But we just don't know.

I blame my mistakes on my small child mentality, wait.... What?

I am so glad I could introduce you to how amazing Hertz was, I am still sad about his early death. And I agree about the History Channel, used to be so good. Sigh.

So glad you liked it Mark.

Jerker Widmark so glad you liked it.

Weekend Scientist mine too

Yeah, that's a very frustrating feeling.

Thank you. It’s a simple device that no one bothers to explain which I find frustrating as most people don’t know how it works.

@Topeng Kertas :-)

I'm glad you like the videos. I am constantly surprised with the links that I have found! I am thinking I should have called it "Links in the History of Electricity" or "Electric Connections" or something. When I am done with the videos I will try to publish a book with all of the material and maybe I will rename it. (ps. Did you watch the Faraday and Maxwell videos?)

@yesca jasta I did

“Connections” immediately brings to mind James Burke’s multiple series of the same name from the 1980s. And along very similar lines ...

Glad you liked it!

True, but he was convinced that he was just seeing induction.

Thank you 😍

Thank you (blushing)

That show was fabulous! I especially love one they had on radio. Thank you for the compliment.

Thanks, I’m glad it helped. Cheers, Kathy

Fernando you are very welcome.

so glad you liked it sir

Thanks for your wit and acumen!

I think you will be pleasantly surprised when you look at my other videos.

Thank you for pointing that out, I always want to add a "p" to Thomson's name, don't know why. I have to figure out how to add a little card over the video without redoing the whole video. Glad you liked the video aside from my spelling.

I love that

I think that if Maxwell had lived longer he would have discovered Special Relativity.

It didn't do anything, he just tried whatever hoping that something would work.

With a DC current there is no electric field, not even an induced one. You have to stop the charges with an excess in one place or another to produce a fixed field, or oscillate them (or otherwise accelerate, i.e. change, their motion) to induce fields. However, a DC current *does* produce a fixed magnetic field, as has been illustrated in earlier entries of this video series.

@@goodmaro if thats the case why does my clamp around dc ampmeter measure current without touching the wire?

@@dougdoug2165 Let me get this straight...you have an ammeter that has a probe you clamp "around" a wire, and the other ammeter lead is what, grounded?

@@goodmaro no it looks like a lobster claw just like an ac clamp around meter. You simply open the claw and it has interlocking metal laminations inside that connect when closed. No other connection made it reads the amount of dc current flowing in amps.

@@dougdoug2165 Wikipedia under "current clamp" describes a few types of ammeter like that. There is no electric field around the DC conductor, but the clamp is able to measure the *magnetic* field from the DC, and from that the current can be calculated.

I am working on it. My last 15 videos have captions and every new video I pay to caption 2-3 old ones. Hopefully, I will get to this one soon, sorry

You can personally turn on auto captioning, which I do, being somewhat hearing impaired.

I put a biography on my Patreon page (it’s free to read you don’t need to join)