How a Scottish physicist formulated the equations that showed us how to electrify the worldMaxwell's Equations first appeared in "A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field",Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, in 1865. These are the equations of light, and the mathematical relationships that showed us how to electrify our world and transmit energy and information through the air.
At the start of the 19th century,we lit our homes and offices with candles and oil lamps. Communications took the form of handwritten letters that took days to travel across the country, and several weeks across oceans. nowadays we use electricity to power everything and radio waves to talk to each other, and anywhere around the world,instantaneously.
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Source: theguardian.com