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John Cuthbertson
(1743 - 1821) John Cuthbertson lived in Amsterdam from 1768 to circa 1796. His largest and most famous generator was made for the Teyler's Foundation in Haarlem, with glass discs 5 foot 5 inches in diameter, and a hundred Leyden jars. It produced a powerful two-foot spark. The energy of electrical machines was rated, in the eighteenth century, by the amount of standard iron wire the spark discharge could melt. This enormous machine could melt 655 inches of wire, 1/150 inch in diameter.
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The
Bakken does not have Teyler's wonderful Cuthbertson generator. We
do have a smaller 1803 generator by Cuthbertson, with a ten-inch
plate. This dates from after his return to London.