Authority Cited: Gray [Stephen]
Author name and dates: Stephen Gray (1666-1736)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cloth-dyer; amateur scientist; first to experiment with electrical conduction; Copley medal of R. S.; Charterhouse pensioner
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one S. Gray cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No S. Gray cites were identified as added in in the 1773 Dict. SJ's source of information is unknown. Gray's findings were published in the Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society.
Author name and dates: Stephen Gray (1666-1736)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cloth-dyer; amateur scientist; first to experiment with electrical conduction; Copley medal of R. S.; Charterhouse pensioner
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one S. Gray cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No S. Gray cites were identified as added in in the 1773 Dict. SJ's source of information is unknown. Gray's findings were published in the Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society.
- Letter VI. A letter from Stephen Gray, F. R. S. to Dr. Mortimer, Secr. R. S. containing some experiments relating to electricity, Phil. Trans., R. Soc., 39, 166-70, 31 Dec. 1735
- Experiences et observations pour servir a l’explication de la nature et des proprietes de l’electricite by William Watson (1748). See image below from the Royal Society web page.
- Gray (no work cited); electricity (1755 Dict.: ". . . the industry of the present age, first excited by the experiments of Gray, has discovered in electricity a multitude of philosophical wonders. Bodies electrified by a sphere of glass, turned nimbly round, not only emit flame, but may be fitted with such a quantity of the electrical vapour, as, if discharged at once upon a human body, would endanger life. The force of this vapour has hitherto appeared instantaneous, persons at both ends of a long chain seeming to be struck at once. The philosophers are now endeavouring to intercept the strokes of lightning.")
