1752

Events in 1752 4

• 1752 – 1840 Frances Burney (1752-1840) Died 6 January 1840, aged 87 Frances Burney, also known as Madame d'Arblay, was an English novelist and diarist best known for her novel Evelina. Her detailed journals offer a vivid record of 18th-century British society. She died on 6 January 1840 in London.
• 1752 Franklin — lightning is electricity The kite experiment and the lightning rod In 1752, Benjamin Franklin demonstrated with his famous kite experiment that lightning is electrical in nature — the same phenomenon as static electricity. He then invented the lightning rod, saving countless lives and buildings from fire. His work established electricity as a natural force amenable to scientific study and practical application, opening the way for the electrical revolution of the 19th century.
• 1752 – 1835 John Nash (1752-1835) Died 13 May 1835, aged 83 Nash was a leading English Regency architect and town planner responsible for designing much of Regency London, including Regent's Park, Regent Street, and the redesign of Buckingham Palace.
• 1752 – 1834 Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834) Died 7 August 1834, aged 82 Jacquard was a French weaver and inventor who devised a punched-card mechanism that automated the weaving of complex patterns into cloth. The Jacquard loom's use of punched cards to control a machine's operations later influenced the design of early computing devices such as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. He died in Oullins, near Lyon.