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Gilbert used the versorium to test whether different materials were "elektrics" (insulators, in modern terms) or non-"elektrics" . While he didn't devise a theory to explain his findings, it was a good example of how science was starting to change by incorporating empirical studies at the dawn of the Age of Reason . [ 4 ]
William Gilbert (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l b ər t /; 24 May 1544? – 30 November 1603), [1] also known as Gilberd, [2] was an English physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching.
1600 – William Gilbert publishes De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure ("On the Magnet and Magnetic bodies, and on that Great Magnet the Earth"), Europe's then current standard on electricity and magnetism. He experimented with and noted the different character of electrical and magnetic forces.
It is generally considered [13] that the first major scientific analysis was by William Gilbert in his publication De Magnete in 1600. [ 16 ] [ 18 ] He discovered that many more materials than amber such as sulphur, wax, glass could produce static electricity when rubbed, and that moisture prevented electrification.
Max Dieckmann and Gustav Glage use the Braun tube for playback of 20-line black-and-white images. The first jukebox with records comes on the market. American Brigadier General Henry Harrison Chase Dunwoody files for a patent for a carborundum steel detector for use in a crystal radio, an improved version of the Cat's-whisker detector.
William Ball Gilbert (1847–1931), American judge; William Gilbert (pastoralist) (1850–1923), South Australian pastoralist and vigneron; Bill Gilbert (intelligence service director) (1916–1987), New Zealand military leader and intelligence service director; William Gilbert Puckey (1805–1878), New Zealand missionary; William Gilbert Rees ...
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This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons.This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',