He was a military engineer in the Caribbean before he returned home to Blois in 1780 to become an inspector of teachers.
He was a military engineer in the Caribbean before he returned home to Blois in 1780 to become an inspector of teachers. Fascinated by the work of Joseph Priestley, he began investigations into electric charges, becoming mildly famous for work on the friction in windmills. In 1784 he began a series of experiments concerned with the magnitude of the forces involved in Priestley¹s fields and found that they decreased proportionally with the inverse square of the distance between charges. FTP, name this man, for whom a unit of electric charge was named.
He was a military engineer in the Caribbean before he returned home to Blois in 1780 to become an inspector of teachers.
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb