\section{Summary}

Our scientific understanding of electricity and magnetism
has developed over a period of centuries.
Phenomena that we understand today as examples of electricity,
magnetism, or electromagnetism have been observed since
ancient times:
Lightning is an electric discharge in the atmosphere.
A lodestone attracts iron.
Light consists of electromagnetic waves.
Such common phenomena, while easily observed,
were unexplained until the scientific revolution.
Today we are able to accurately describe and explain
all variety of electromagnetic phenomena,
based on the mathematical theory of fields.
With this knowledge has come the ability to
create technologies, such as the distribution
of electric power, that affect our daily lives.

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