On April 3, 1846, Charles Wheatstone was about to present the Friday evening lecture at London’s Royal Institution. He had been invited by Michael Faraday, who had long been conducting research ...

This is one of the key ideas in Maxwell's equations ... Electric Fields in Conductors This is exactly what a Faraday cage does: It cancels an EM field by creating a second one in the opposite ...

IN translating this paper of Maxwell for Ostwald's “Klassiker der exacten Wissenschaften,” I have detected some errors, which are partly merely misprints, but partly also faults in the ...