Pieter van Musschenbroek was a Dutch scientist who lived from 1692 to 1761 and who is credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design, the Leyden jar, in 1746. He was a professor at Duisburg, Utrecht and Leiden, specializing in physics, mathematics, philosophy, medicine and astronomy. His pioneering work on the buckling of compressed struts made him one of the first scientists to give detailed descriptions of testing machines for tension, compression and flexure testing, which he did in 1729.
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Pieter van Musschenbroek (14 March 1692-19 September 1761) was a Dutch scientist credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design in the Leyden jar in 1746.
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Pieter van Musschenbroek (14 March 1692-19 September 1761) was a Dutch scientist credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design in the Leyden jar in 1746.
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The following year, the Dutch physicist Pieter van Musschenbroek invented a similar capacitor, which was named the Leyden jar, after the University of Leiden where he worked.
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Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden (Leyden), Netherlands, in 1745-1746
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