Biographies of contributors to the early investigation of electrical phenomena

Author

Gerhard-Multhaupt, Reimund

Author_Institution

Heinrich-Hertz Inst., Berlin, Germany

Volume

26

Issue

1

fYear

1991

fDate

2/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

130

Abstract

The biographies of William Gilbert, Otto von Guericke, Stephen Gray, Francis Hauksbee, John Theophilus Desaguliers, Willem Jacob ´s-Gravesande, Petrus van Musschenbroek, Christian August Hausen, Charles-Francois de Cisternay Dufay, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Ewald Georg von Kleist, Johann Heinrich Winckler, Benjamin Franklin, Leonhard Euler, Robert Symmer, Rudjer J. Boskovic, William Watson, Giambatista Beccaria, John Canton, Franz Ulrich Theodosius Aepinus, Henry Cavendish, Johan Carl Wilcke, Joseph Priestley, Charles-Augustin Coulomb, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Tiberius Cavallo are presented

Keywords

biographies; Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta; Benjamin Franklin; Charles-Augustin Coulomb; Charles-Francois de Cisternay Dufay; Christian August Hausen; Ewald Georg von Kleist; Francis Hauksbee; Franz Ulrich Theodosius Aepinus; Georg Christoph Lichtenberg; Giambatista Beccaria; Henry Cavendish; Jean-Antoine Nollet; Johan Carl Wilcke; Johann Heinrich Winckler; John Canton; John Theophilus Desaguliers; Joseph Priestley; Leonhard Euler; Otto von Guericke; Petrus van Musschenbroek; Pierre-Simon Laplace; Robert Symmer; Rudjer J. Boskovic; Stephen Gray; Tiberius Cavallo; Willem Jacob ´s-Gravesande; William Gilbert; William Watson; biographies; early investigation of electrical phenomena; Arm; Biographies; Books; Councils; Drugs; Educational institutions; Fellows; Instruments; Laboratories; Libraries;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electrical Insulation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9367

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/14.68232

Filename

68232