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Born November 30, 1711 • Gloucester • England
Died July 4, 1778 (aged 66) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Subjects Of Study electricity • lightning
Joseph Jenks
British-American inventor
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry
American physicist
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
American engineer and industrialist
Watch a silent short of Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph and incandescent electric light
Thomas Edison
American inventor
Charles Steinmetz.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
American engineer
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Gilbert, William
William Gilbert
English scientist
Brush, Charles Francis
Charles Francis Brush
American inventor and industrialist
Francis Hauksbee, the Elder
English scientist
Edwin James Houston
American engineer
William Greener
British inventor and gunsmith
David Hughes, engraving by Delzers after a photograph
David Hughes
British-American inventor
James Bicheno Francis
James Bicheno Francis
British-American engineer
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Guericke, engraving by C. Galle, 1649, after a portrait by Anselmus von Hulle
Otto von Guericke
Prussian physicist, engineer, and philosopher
Gustave-Auguste Ferrié
French scientist and military officer
Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton
British inventor
Réaumur, detail of an engraving by J. Blanchon
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French entomologist
John Canton
British physicist