Aether: First And Second Industrial Revolution

The ether, also known as aether, was believed to occupy all of space with a material that was considered to be a mechanically structured substance. It would be composed of particles that move in particular ways so as to produce the forces found in the phenomena of electricity and magnetism. This was on the basis of the work achieved by James Clerk Maxwell, who in the first developed the theory that predicted the existence and the means of producing radio waves in the 1850s. Before Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity in the early twentieth century, many physicists including Maxwell believed in a material aether as the medium that carried the forces of light, electromagnetism, and even gravity. After the acceptance of Einstein’s theory
The Industrial Age which included the First and Second Industrial Revolution, accelerated natural philosophy to science in the modern sense and brought forth the birth of science-based industries as well as the professionalization of the sciences, and the maturity of academic and industrial laboratories. The emergence of physics as a discipline from the laboratory phenomena of conversion of forces (mechanics, chemistry, electricity, magnetism, optics, and thermometry) to thermodynamics, electromagnetism, and the atomic theory of matter from aether physics to energy physics from mathematics and natural philosophy to physics being experimental and theoretical. Scientists believed in its reality because natural philosophy adopted the methods and goals of the mechanical arts (technology). These new theories being electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and the atomic theory of matter had both a natural philosophical and a technological
The practical need for the coordination and transmission of time signals across cities, states, and colonial empires spurred an industry of precision time-measuring and telecommunication devices. Poincaré’s work at the Bureau of Longitudes and Einstein’s job at the Patent Office placed them in front-line positions to be aware of these practical concerns, and to be actively involved in the development of the related technologies. Their theoretical studies of electrodynamics were idealized versions of the central technological problems of their time. The principle of relativity that ultimately extended to all the laws of physics and the principle of constancy of the speed of light were the fundamental aspects Albert Einstein utilized in order to derive the Special Theory of Relativity. Through this work, Einstein was able to articulately explain the reasoning behind the dilation of time which flows differently in frames of reference that are in motion relatively to one another, the contraction of lengths, energy being equivalent to mass (E =mc2), in addition to understanding that space and time intertwined in the four-dimensional spacetime continuum. Einstein was a classicist in the sense that he aimed at