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Inquisitive mind Curious as a child, James Clerk Maxwell published his first scientific paper at the age of 14. In 1856, he published a major ESSAY ON SATURN’S RINGS. Scientists had long struggled to understand why they didn’t break up or move apart. Using mathematics, Maxwell suggested they were neither entirely solid nor a fluid, but made up of lots of separate parts.
Maxwell’s most famous discovery was that electricity and magnetism are essentially two aspects of the same force. He also showed that electric and magnetic fields travel through space in the form of waves, and that light is a type of electromagnetic wave. His FOUR MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS, which describe the behaviour of electric and magnetic fields and how they interact with matter, are ow? id you knin was D considered a cornerstone Albert Einste xwell and of modern physics. pired by Ma
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Who came before... A link between electricity and magnetism was found in 1820 by Danish physicist Hans CHristian Oersted, who showed that electricity flowing through a wire could move a nearby magnet. 86
The electromagnet was invented in 1825 by English electrical engineer William sturgeOn. This led to the development of the telegraph in the 1830s, the first step in electric telecommunications.
