Jean-Antoine Nollet
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Jean-Antoine Nollet was a French clergyman and physicist who conducted a number of experiments with electricity and discovered osmosis. As a deacon in the Catholic Church, he was also known as Abbé No
Portrait by Quentin de La Tour, c. 1753
Effects of electricity on living organisms and electrospray, Recherches sur les causes particulières des phénomènes électriques, 1749 (Wellcome L0007028)
Recherches sur les causes particulieres des phénoménes électriques (1754)
The Electric Boy, Essai sur l'electricité des corps, 1746
Leyden jar
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A Leyden jar is an electrical component that stores a high-voltage electric charge between electrical conductors on the inside and outside of a glass jar. It typically comprises a glass jar with metal
Jean-Antoine Nollet
…in England and in 1736 to the Netherlands. He was a member of the Royal Society of London from 1734. He is reputed to have given the name to the Leyden jar after it was invented by Pieter van Musschenbroek. To finance his own experimental instruments, Nollet started building and selling duplicate instruments…
A "battery" of four water-filled Leyden jars, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden