The purpose of this article is to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz by reprinting his famous lecture on the relations between light and electricity delivered before the German Association for the Advancement of Natural Science and Medicine at Heidelberg on September 20, 1889.

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