The article is aimed to answer the question 'Who creates the electric field inside a wire supporting an electric current?'. By means of a simple model it is shown that a surface charge distribution varying linearly along the wire creates an uniform electric field inside it. The utilized model is that of a closed at both ends coaxial cable, whose walls are kept at conveniently chosen potentials. This study allows us to bridge the way from Electrostatics to Electrodynamics, historically so important in the development of the electromagnetic science.
