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   It's a wonder that any of us get to grips with the understanding of   
   electricity, when the fundamental lessons are impossible to   
   realise, starting with two point charges one metre apart in a vacuum.   
      
   Perhaps that is why the SI system defines the Ampere and not the Coulomb   
   as its fundamental unit, but whoever has realised two infinitely long   
   parallel   
   wires one metre apart?   
      
   From the early days before the revelation of J.J.Thomson, it was thought   
   that   
   electricity was some form of fluid, and that gave rise to the weird   
   name of Rheostat as " Stream Control" and also what we now just   
   refer to as a bit of wire, the Rheofore.   
      
   What is truly amazing, though, is the theories developed by James Clerk   
   Maxwell,   
   considering that he did not have the benefit of vector calculus and had to   
   deal with   
   each dimension separately.   
      
      
      
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