First direct view of an electron's short, speedy trip across a border

There, as far as I know, only a few copies of Maxwell's original work - all collectors' items. Most of the only line references omit Heaviside and present the four equations as Maxwell's (which they are not).

Some references I ran across:
James Clerk Maxwell. 1856. “On Faraday’s lines of force”. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. 10 (1856), pp. 27-83

James Clerk Maxwell. 1862. “On physical lines of force”. Philosophical Magazine Series 4, vol. 21 (1861), pp. 161-175, 281-291, 338-348; Philosophical Magazine Series 4, vol. 23 (1862), pp. 12-24, 85-95

James Clerk Maxwell. 1865. “A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 155 (1865), p. 459-512

This is the one I think you want to find:
James Clerk Maxwell. 1873. A Treatise on Electromagnetism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1873

Oliver Heaviside. 1894. Electrical Papers. New York and London: Macmillan & Co, 1894

Forgot to add that only in places obscure is anyone looking at the other 198 quaternions (as Maxwell called them). They are all field equations and there are few theoretical mathematicians working on them - if any.

Among the many reasons people avoid them is because they postulate the “impossible” like free energy for the ‘aether’ (see Nicola Tesla), collapsing distance - as in being able to step from one spot to another any where in the universe, instant communication over any distance, and so on.

Only ‘crackpots’ believe any of this is possible and so it is a career ending path and avoided (filed under ‘consensus thinking’); “we already know everything and it is just a matter of filling in the details”, is another way to put it - a popular science theology in the 1950-60s.

you can also try:
The Man Who Changed Everything
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
by Basil Mahonr

and:
Oliver Heaviside
The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age
by Paul J Nahin

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