Johann Andreas von Segner was a Hungarian scientist of German descent, born on 9 October 1704 in Pozsony, today Bratislava, and died on 5 October 1777. He studied at Pressburg, Debrecen and Jena, graduated in medicine at Jena in 1729 and worked as a physician in Pressburg and Debrecen before returning to Jena, where he took a degree in philosophy in May 1732 and began lecturing in 1733. In the history of water power he is the first scientist to use the reactive force of water and the builder of the first water jet, the Segner wheel, which resembles one type of modern lawn sprinkler.
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He was the first scientist to use the reactive force of water and constructed the first water-jet, the Segner wheel
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invented by Johann Andreas Segner in the 18th century
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