The speed
of the waves,  according to these equations, turned out to be very close to
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the speed of light( 3 ×108 m/s), obtained from optical
measurements This led to the remarkable conclusion
that light is an electromagnetic wave Maxwell’s work
thus unified the domain of electricity, magnetism and
light Hertz, in 1885, experimentally demonstrated the
existence of electromagnetic waves