Note 12 — CHAPTER 3 PIONEERS IN ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY

The scientific papers of Cavendish were published (in 1879) under the title, “The Electrical Researches of the Hon. Henry Cavendish,” edited by Clerk Maxwell. Cavendish anticipated many later investigations of British and Continental writers, including Ohm’s law—i. e., the proportionality between the electromotive force and the current in the same conductor; and anticipated also Faraday’s discovery of the specific inductive capacity of different substances, even measuring its numerical value in several substances. He had also arrived at the conceptions of electrical capacity and of “potential.”