Jacques de Romas (October 13, 1713 - January 21, 1776) was a French physicist. He is known for physical experiments during thunderstorms and in 1750 proposed a connection between lightning and electricity. He conducted the kite experiment that Benjamin Franklin proposed in 1750 in a letter to Peter Collinson, but that had not yet reached France. In 1753, raising a wire-wrapped kite in a thunderstorm, he proved the electrical nature of lightning. He also reported that during a repeat performance, he received severe jolts that were more intense than all he received before during experiments with Leyden jars. For this reason, he performed later experiments only with separately grounded conductors and kites that he handled via glass rods. He was made a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1764. After studying his reports and letters to fellow scientists, the commission concluded that his experiments were conducted without knowledge of the similar | |
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