Key Figures in the History of the Leyden Jar

In order of appearance

William Gilbert, England (1544–1603)

Otto von Guericke, Prussia (1602 – 1686)

Francis Hauksbee, England (16xx-17xx)

Stephen Gray, England (1666-1736)

Georg Mattias Bose, Saxony-Anhalt (1710-1761)

Charles François du Cisternay du Fay, France (1698 - 1739)

Pieter van Musschenbroek, Netherlands (1692-1761)

Eward Georg von Kleist, Prussia (1700 – 1748)

Jean-Antoine Nollet, aka Abbé Nollet, France (1700-1770)

Benjamin Franklin, American Colonies (1705-1790)

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, France (1708-1788)

Thomas-François Dalibard, France (1709-1778)

Ebenezer Kinnersley, England (1711-1778)

William Watson, England (1715-1787) 

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, France (1736-1806)

Luigi Galvani, Italy (1737-1798)

Alessandro Volta, Italy (1745-1827)

André-Marie Ampère, France (1775-1836)

Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Prussia (1776-1810)

Hans Christian Ørsted, Denmark (1777-1851)

Humphry Davy, England (1778-1829)

Michael Faraday, England (1791-1867)

James Clerk Maxwell, Scotland (1831-1879)

Oliver Heaviside, England (1850-1925)

Heinrich Hertz, German Confederation (1857-1894)