Art wrote:
"This surely will put my submission back to the dark ages."
That`s where it belongs. Coulomb`s Law is a producct of the 1780`s, and
Gauss was a conteporary. Unification of all known electrical laws by
James Clerk Maxwell and their formulation by Oliver Heaviside was the
proudest accomplishment of the 19th cenury physics according to
Wikipedia.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI