Francis Hauksbee the Elder FRS (1660–1713), also known as Francis Hawksbee, was an 18th-century English scientist best known for his work on electricity...

Francis Hauksbee the Younger (1687 – 11 January 1763) was an English instrument maker and experimentalist. He was son of John Hauksbee, who belonged to...

Hauksbee may refer to: Francis Hauksbee (scientist), 1666–1713. Mrs. Hauksbee, a fictional character in many stories by Rudyard Kipling This disambiguation...

basic principles had already been described by Guillaume Amontons and Francis Hauksbee a century earlier. Dalton was the first to demonstrate that the law...

Others (e.g., Isaac Vossius, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Louis Carré, Francis Hauksbee, Josia Weitbrecht) thought that the particles of liquid were attracted...

respiratory physiology, though the latter use is often erroneous. Francis Hauksbee performed some of the earliest observations and experiments in 1709...

Gua de Malves, French mathematician (died 1785) April 29 (bur.) – Francis Hauksbee, English scientific instrument maker and experimentalist (born 1660)...

instance, shown in the Figure is an electrostatic generator built by Francis Hauksbee the Younger. Another key development was in the 1730s when C. F. du...

point because the polarity is the same for the point and the air. Francis Hauksbee, curator of instruments for the Royal Society of London, made the earliest...

an English scientist by the name of Francis Hauksbee, developed a style of a double-barrelled air pump. Hauksbee's double-barrelled air pump was used primarily...

publishes Opticks, a corpuscular theory of light and colour 1705 – Francis Hauksbee improves von Guericke's electrostatic generator by using a glass globe...

following their order. The first known line charts are usually credited to Francis Hauksbee, Nicolaus Samuel Cruquius, Johann Heinrich Lambert and William Playfair...

18th-century experiment in "natural philosophy" (later to be called "physics") English scientist Francis Hauksbee works with an early electrostatic generator....

gases. The second electric machine is invented by British engineer Francis Hauksbee the elder (1660–1713): it is a sphere of glass rotated by a wheel....

resulted in da Costa's imprisonment for two years. In 1763 the death of Francis Hauksbee, who had served for forty years as clerk to the Royal Society, led...

Some of the earliest known line charts are generally credited to Francis Hauksbee, Nicolaus Samuel Cruquius, Johann Heinrich Lambert and the Scottish...

series for π (pi), enabling it to be computed to 100 decimal places. Francis Hauksbee produces his 'Influence machine' to generate static electricity. Johann...

book titled Physico-Mechanical Experiments on Various Subjects by Francis Hauksbee. American experimenter Thomas Townsend Brown spent much of his life...

Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish naturalist (died 1740) May 27 (bapt.) – Francis Hauksbee, English scientific instrument maker and experimentalist (died 1713)...

Boyle produce an air pump that helped to produce the vacuum. By 1709, Francis Hauksbee improved on the design further with his two-cylinder pump, where two...

phenomenon from Bernoulli, the Englishman Francis Hauksbee investigated the subject extensively. Hauksbee showed that a complete vacuum was not essential...

some significant events. January – Great Frost in Western Europe. Francis Hauksbee publishes Physico-Mechanical Experiments on Various Subjects, summarizing...

the barometer. Investigators, including Francis Hauksbee, tried to determine the cause of the phenomenon. Hauksbee first demonstrated a gas-discharge lamp...

Hausen's generator was similar to earlier generators, such as that of Francis Hauksbee. It consisted of a glass globe rotated by a cord and a large wheel...

"non-electrics" classification of substances (1729). 1737 C. F. du Fay and Francis Hauksbee the younger Independently discovered what they believed to be two kinds...

suggested the use of a glass globe instead of a sulphur one. About 1706 Francis Hauksbee improved the basic design, with his frictional electrical machine that...

This is the first ever electric generator. 1705 English scientist Francis Hauksbee made a glass ball that glowed when spun and rubbed with the hand 1720...

earumque causis). The electric machine was subsequently improved by Francis Hauksbee, his student Litzendorf, and by Prof. Georg Matthias Bose, about 1750...

of the rise was inversely proportional to the radius of the tube. Francis Hauksbee, in 1713, refuted the theory of Rohault through a series of experiments...

electricity with water and reported in the English language include: Francis Hauksbee "Physico-Mechanical Experiments on Various Subjects". (1719) William...