biography
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| lived:
| (1718–72)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Stroud, Gloucestershire, SWC England, UK. A schoolmaster in London, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1749. He invented an electroscope and an electrometer, originated experiments in induction, was the first to make powerful artificial magnets, and in 1762 demonstrated the compressibility of water. |
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