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ON either February 15 or February 25, 1736, two hundred years ago, Stephen Gray, one of the earliest British electricians, died at the age of eighty-three years in Charterhouse, London, of which he had been an inmate for seventeen years. He had been nominated as a Brother in 1718 by George, Prince of Wales, but the entry in the records relating to his admission runs: “Stephen Gray for ye Prince, John Gwynn for ye Archbishop, John Cox for Earl Cowper and John Alien for ye Duke of Buckingham sworn at ye hospital before a Committee 24 June 1719.”
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Stephen Gray: The First Copley Medallist. Nature 137, 299–300 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137299a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137299a0