Note 15 — THE WORK OF HERTZ AND SOME OF HIS SUCCESSORS.
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This statement has been absurdly misunderstood, as if it was a prediction of what would always be the limit of sensitiveness for any apparatus and any sized sender. Nothing of the kind was in my mind. Such predictions are always preposterous, and I am not obliged to those who imagined that I had been guilty of one of them.—O. J. L., 1899.