Pieter van Musschenbroek (Person)
Pieter van Musschenbroek
1692 AD - 1761 AD
Dutch scientist credited with the invention of the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar.
He performed pioneering work on the buckling of compressed struts, and in 1729, he was also one of the first scientists to provide detailed descriptions of testing machines for tension, compression, and flexure testing.
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