Jacques de Romas
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Jacques de Romas
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Jacques de Romas was a French physicist. He held a judiciary office in the présidial of his lifelong hometown of Nérac. As a hobbyist, he was a polymath scientist until specialising in electricity. He became known for physical experiments during thunderstorms and in 1750 proposed a connection between lightning and electricity when the chateau of Tampouy was hit by lightning strike. That same year, he invented a device with which he tried to measure atmospheric voltage. His colleague François de
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French physicist (1713–1776)
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