WI: All of Henry Cavendish's work had been published before he died

Let’s say that all of the scientific research that Cavendish did not publish in OTL had been, be it either by Cavendish himself or another, before he died. How might the advances in scientific knowledge and engineering made after his death in 1810 be different from OTL with his work made available before that year.



From what I've read on Wikipedia Cavendish kept much of his work to himself due to things such as his shyness and lack of confidence in his work. So let’s say that the POD for this event is that he either has an out of character bout of confidence, a friend/associate of his comes to know of the work he kept secret and pushes him to publish it, or said friend/associate publishes the work behind Cavendish’s back.

 
The boost to theory might allow Maxwell to come up with the Theory of Relativity decades before Einstein. I think there was a thread about that some time ago. The idea that space is the aether, thus space can bend and warp was central to it, I think.
 
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