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    Pieter van Musschenbroek (14 March 1692 – 19 September 1761) was a Dutch scientist. He was a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden, where he held...
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    Ewald Georg von Kleist on 11 October 1745 and by Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden (Leyden), Netherlands in 1745–1746. The Leyden jar was...
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  • atlases Pieter Burmann the Elder (1668–1741), Dutch classical scholar Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692–1761), Dutch scientist and inventor Pieter Teyler van der...
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    known as the Leyden jar after 's Gravesande's graduate student Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leyden. Heilbron, John L. "Kleist, Ewald Georg von". Encyclopedia...
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    electrostatic machine. The following year, the Dutch physicist Pieter van Musschenbroek invented a similar capacitor, which was named the Leyden jar, after...
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    jar, a capacitor made from a glass jar, invented in Leiden by Pieter van Musschenbroek in 1746. Another development was in cryogenics: Heike Kamerlingh...
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  • the Kinetic theory of gases 1745–46 – Ewald Georg von Kleist and Pieter van Musschenbroek: discovery of the Leyden jar 1752 – Benjamin Franklin: Kite experiment...
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    seven primary colours would show an (imperfect) white colour was Pieter van Musschenbroek in 1762. Benham's top Briggs, David (12 August 2012). "Additive...
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    Shelley, 4th Baronet, English politician (d. 1771) March 14 – Pieter van Musschenbroek, Dutch naturalist (d. 1761) March 25 – Tokugawa Tsugutomo, daimyo...
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    [citation needed] The term "pyrometer" was coined in the 1730s by Pieter van Musschenbroek, better known as the inventor of the Leyden jar. His device, of...
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