Maxwell (In Our Time)
1865 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discusses the life and ideas of James Clerk Maxwell whose work is not widely known, but whose genius and contribution to the age in which we live is enormous.He took the first colour photograph, defined the nature of gases and with a few mathematical equations expressed all the fundamental laws of light, electricity and magnetism - an
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Around 1865
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)