... educated at the public schools there, and though not an outstanding student, he had decided to become a physicist at the age of fourteen. In 1774 he was appointed professor of physics at the Royal School in Como, and the following year he invented the electophosphorus,. The instrument simply consisted of two metal sheets separated by an insulator, but once electrically charge ... ...

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