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Stephen Gray
British chemist, physicist, astronomer · Scientists · Lived 1666 to 1736 · aged 70
Stephen Gray was an English dyer and astronomer who was the first to systematically experiment with electrical conduction. Until his work in 1729 the emphasis had been on the simple generation of static charges and investigations of the static phenomena.
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![Jean-Antoine Nollet reproducing Stephan Gray's “electric boy” experiment, in which a boy hanging from insulating silk ropes is given an electric charge. A group are gathered around. A woman is encouraged to bend forward and poke the boy's nose, to get an electric shock.[5]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/RGNb10360943.01_Nollet_The_Electric_Boy.tif/lossy-page1-500px-RGNb10360943.01_Nollet_The_Electric_Boy.tif.jpg)
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Gray showed that electricity can be conducted through metals and that it appeared on the surfaces of insulators.
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Lived 1666 to 1736 · aged 70
