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Abstract TREVOR H. LEVERE has recently related in Notes and Records (1) how the Dutch scientist Martinus van Marum was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1798, and at the same time has demonstrated the scientific ties which existed between England and Holland in the eighteenth century (2). I will now attempt to further demonstrate this interaction in the field of science by studying the development of Van Marum’s triboelectric generators or frictional electrical machines, which played such a great part in his electrical studies (3). The Germans led the field in the design of the electrical machine from about 1720 to the discovery of the Leyden jar in 1745, when the English ‘electricians’ and instrument makers regained their previously held lead. They were primarily interested in the glass cylinder machine, which reached such a state of perfection through the work of Cavallo (4) and Nairne (5) that, after 1783, its design remained virtually unchanged until it was superseded by the induction or influence machine of 1865.
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