Benedictine monk, professor of natural philosophy at University of Erfurt, born Cofforach, Scotland, 1712; died Erfurt, Germany, 1751. He invented the electrical whirl (an early electrostatic reaction motor), and the electric chimes, an early instance of the application of "electric convection."
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