History of Wireless

REFLECTIONS ON MAXWELL'S TREATISE (Invited Paper)

“…II, Sec. [1][2][3][4][5][6]. § To explain mathematically the experiments ofÖrsted, Coulomb, Ampère, Gauss, and Faraday, Maxwell "regarded the magnet as a continuous and homogeneous body, the minutest part of which has magnetic properties of the same kind as the whole" [1,Arts.…”

“…The paper does not outline the history of the development of electromagnetics, which has been welldocumented in several excellent books, for example, [3][4][5][6], nor does it trace the genesis and evolution of Maxwell's equations from Maxwell's original papers to the present time, as is done in the recent informative articles by O. M. Bucci [7] and J. W. Arthur [8]. In the present paper, I have intentionally avoided secondary sources by limiting myself to what Maxwell did in his Treatise and especially how he did it.…”

What did maxwell do to prove light was electromagnetic in nature and the concept of his displacement current

“…Therefore to Maxwell a displacement current is a true current [3,4]. Now with the demise of the concept of ether what role does the displacement current play in the development of electromagnetic theory?…”

Integration of historical content into engineering teaching: Possible benefits and perceptions

“…The motivation for writing their recent book 'History of wireless' [10], Sarkar et al, write in the Preface, comes, among others, from Auguste Comte who said 'The history of science is science itself' The authors also quote Aristotle who said "If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development. '…”