jan 7, 1864 - Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell
Description:
demonstrates that electric and magnetic fields travel through space in the form of waves at the constant speed of light and that electricity, magnetism and even light are all manifestations of electromagnetism. He collected together laws originally derived by Carl Friedrich Gauss, Michael Faraday and André-Marie Ampère into a unified and consistent theory (often known as Maxwell’s Equations).Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 7, 1864
Now
~ 162 years ago