Pieter van Musschenbroek (1692 to 1761) was a Dutch scientist credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design, the Leyden jar, in 1746. Born in Leiden to a family of instrument makers, he became a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht and Leiden, working across physics, mathematics, philosophy, medicine and astronomy. At the time transient electrical energy could be generated by friction machines but there was no way to store it. He and his student Andreas Cunaeus found that the energy could be stored in a glass jar of water holding a brass rod, and released by completing an external circuit. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1734.
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