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the mid to late nineteenth century, a revo-lution was taking place in physics. While Quantum Physics and Special Relativity were yet to be discovered, the age of modern physics was set to begin. The physics community was saturat-ed with ideas; what still remained was to show whether or not the theories held up under exper-imental scrutiny. Physicists around the world recognized that their area of study could make great leaps if only the necessary experiments were performed. After all, the most persuasive argument in science is a theory backed by exper-imental data. Yet skepticism remained about proving Maxwell’s equations experimentally. Many called for physical states that were stil