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Timeline of Electromagnetism
1269 – Epistola de Magnete – Peregrinus 1600 – de Magnete – Gilbert 1746 – Leyden jar 1800 – the voltaic pile is an early battery – Volta 1812 – electric force equation – Poisson 1820 – current in a wire creates magnetic field – Oersted 1820 – electricity and magnetism are linked – Ampere […]
1885 – Weyl – bio
Born near Hamburg, Germany in 1885, Hermann Weyl was a mathematician whose work had a strong influence on both physics and number theory. He worked on combining general relativity and the laws of electromagnetism. He worked with Lie algebras, symmetry and created the first version of gauge theory which attempted to describe both electromagnetic and […]
1791 – Faraday – bio
Michael Faraday was born in 1791 in South London, England. Faraday studied electromagnetic fields and was also a chemist. He proposed that magnetism is a circular force and used that idea to build the first simple electric motor. He discovered electromagnetic induction and built the first generator and transformer. He discovered that a magnetic field […]
1831 – Maxwell – bio
James Clerk Maxwell was a mathematician and physicist who was born in Scotland in 1831. His differential equations that describe the electromagnetic process are now known as “Maxwells Equations”. They were able to build upon the work of Gauss with electric charge and magnetism and the work of Faraday with induction and the work of […]
