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The story of the concept of electromagnetic energy began, one might claim, in 1845, when Franz Neumann realized that electromagnetic forces and torques could be derived from a potential function, and that the law of electromagnetic induction could be formulated by means of the same potential function.
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Knudsen, O. (1995). Electromagnetic Energy and the Early History of the Energy Principle. In: Kox, A.J., Siegel, D.M. (eds) No Truth Except in the Details. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 167. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0217-9_3
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