James Clerk Maxwell

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Chronicled events

1. 1865·​Maxwell Makes Light an Electromagnetic Wave
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   Light is a wave of electric and magnetic forces, traveling through space at the speed my equations give for such waves, about 310,000 kilometers a second. Radiant heat, and any other radiation like it, must be such a wave too.