• 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...
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  • Francis Hauksbee the Younger (1687 – 11 January 1763) was an English instrument maker and experimentalist. He was son of John Hauksbee, who belonged to...
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  • Hauksbee may refer to: Francis Hauksbee (scientist), 1666–1713. Mrs. Hauksbee, a fictional character in many stories by Rudyard Kipling This disambiguation...
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    basic principles had already been described by Guillaume Amontons and Francis Hauksbee a century earlier. Dalton was the first to demonstrate that the law...
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    Others (e.g., Isaac Vossius, Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Louis Carré, Francis Hauksbee, Josia Weitbrecht) thought that the particles of liquid were attracted...
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  • respiratory physiology, though the latter use is often erroneous. Francis Hauksbee performed some of the earliest observations and experiments in 1709...
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    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...
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    following their order. The first known line charts are usually credited to Francis Hauksbee, Nicolaus Samuel Cruquius, Johann Heinrich Lambert and William Playfair...
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    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...
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    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...
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