Granville Wheler

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Granville Wheler (* 1701 ; † May 22, 1770 ) was an Anglican pastor.

His father, Sir George Wheler (1651-1724) was related to the Wheler Baronets .

Granville Wheler became principal in Leak and beneficiary of Southwell, Nottingham.

On June 7, 1728 he became a member of the Royal Society .

Lines of Communication

In the country house in the village of Otterden , Kent Downs , he and his friend Stephen Gray performed electrostatic experiments. They experimented with increasingly longer hemp cords, at the end of which an ivory ball hung and put on goose feathers. They called them Lines of Communication .

To prove that human bodies also conduct electricity, on April 8, 1730, they replaced the hemp cord with a schoolboy, which they hung horizontally on horsehair loops. A business card stand with tinfoil leaves was placed under his outstretched arm. When a charged glass tube was held against the soles of his feet, the tinfoil leaflets flew into his hand.

For several years they divided the substances into electrical conductors and non-conductors.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otterden Burials. In: freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved January 9, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Wheler, Sir George (1651-1724), ( Memento of July 30, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) In: dur.ac.uk
  3. ^ A. Dodd and A. Smith: The Gentleman's Magazine. A. Dodd and A. Smith, 1832, p. 396. limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Eastman Kodak Company: Medical Radiography and Photography . tape 24-25 . Eastman Kodak Company, 1948, p. 64 ( Google Books ).
  5. ^ The Discovery of Electrical Conduction and Insulation. In: sparkmuseum.com. Retrieved January 9, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Wheler, Granville
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglican pastor
DATE OF BIRTH 1701
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1770