Today is Jimmy Maxwell’s Birthday.  Happy Birthday Jim-Bo.  Who the holy-heck is that, you say?

Well.  Since you asked.  James Clerk Maxwell of Glenlair was a Scottish physicist and mathematician.   Yep.  A Dapper Dude from Scotland.

He was born in 1831 and died on the 5th day of November in 1879.  Not very old.  At all.

Now….  his most prominent achievement was formulating classical electromagnetic theory. Yowza.  This was really something.   I will tell you that much right now.

When he came up with this really big brain fart…. he united all previously unrelated observations, experiments, and equations of electricity, magnetism, and optics into a consistent theory.

I wish I had brain farts like that.

Maxwell’s equations demonstrate that electricity, magnetism and light are all manifestations of the same phenomenon, namely the electromagnetic field.

The people who are all the shutzpah in the world of Physics think Old Man Maxwell is up there with Isaac Newton.  Number Two, and One, respectively.

Them are big magnetic potatoes.

A man of many talents… … he loved poetry.  He wrote it too.

I bet one of his poems went like this…

You are so sweet and so nice.
I like you  much more than lab mice.
My magnets are shiny,
But my heart is not tiny,
You make all my ions spin twice.

At any rate… it all didn’t stop there.

Since he had come up with the whole magnetic deal….  he need something to stick them on.

And… you guessed it.  Two years later, he invented the early workings for the modern day refrigerator. Truthfully, it was just a big piece of sheet metal that they kept  propped up against a wall in their kitchen.

Ahhhh…  …..but all great ideas have to start somewhere.

I am positive about that.  Absolutely Positive.

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” – Aristotle