Brief EM history (for dummies)
Maxwell's ‘Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism’ was published in 1873. His 1,000-page book contained 20 equations.
To visualize and understand own mathematical EM ideas , he used mechanical analogies: balls, bearings, hooks. ...
Hertz (1888) freed EM theory from the mechanical model. ...
Oliver Heaviside (1893) modernized EM theory by reducing the equations to four,
giving them the form commonly used today….
In 1905 Maxwell's EM theory was a foundational element for Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (SRT).
Maxwell's ‘Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism’ was published in 1873. His 1,000-page book contained 20 equations.
To visualize and understand own mathematical EM ideas , he used mechanical analogies: balls, bearings, hooks. ...
Hertz (1888) freed EM theory from the mechanical model. ...
Oliver Heaviside (1893) modernized EM theory by reducing the equations to four,
giving them the form commonly used today….
In 1905 Maxwell's EM theory was a foundational element for Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (SRT).
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