History of electromagnetic theory ( 7 ) :

• A Timeline of Electricity and Magnetism:  information taken mainly from E. T. Whittaker's A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity which spans 900 BC to 1905 AD.
• Lines and Waves: a history of electromagnetism which focuses on the contributions of Faraday and Maxwell -- from the IEEE Center for the History of Electrical Engineering.
• Gallery of Electromagnetic Personalities - A Vignette History of Electromagnetics: by Professor L. Taylor of the University of Maryland.
• Some relevant historic essays from NASA.  See in particular the series starting at Magnetism.
• Sketches of a History of Electromagnetism: from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
• Episodes in Romantic Science: Oersted and the Discovery of Electromagnetism
   by Frederick Gregory, Department of History at the University of Florida.

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