History of Maxwell’s Equation

In 1865, James Clerk Maxwell wrote his famous (or infamously difficult) Maxwell’s equations. These equations were to transform our world.  For example, when Einstein was asked if he stood on the shoulders of Newton, he replied, “No, on the shoulders of Maxwell”.

But who was James Maxwell, why are his equations important and why did he write them? It all has to do with a great scientist named Michael Faraday who had no math skills and a young Lord Kelvin (of temperature fame) who inspired the...