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Commonly used terms in the Electrical industry.
Maxwell
is best known as the greatest theoretical physicist of the 19th century. It was Maxwell who discovered, among other things, that light consisted of waves. He developed the fundamental equations describing electromagnetic fields in his work, A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field, published in 1864. Maxwell also gave us the mathematical foundation for the kinetic theory of gases. Maxwell's life was cut short by cancer, and thus he was unable to see his greatest theoretical propositions proven by experiment.