Granville Wheler

Granville Wheler (* 1701, † May 22, 1770 ) was an Anglican priest.

His father, Sir George Wheler (1651-1724) was related to the Wheler baronet.

Granville Wheler became rector in Leak and Prebendary of Southwell, Nottingham.

On 7 June 1728, he became a member of the Royal Society.

In the country house in the village Otterden, Kent Downs, he undertook with his friend Stephen Gray electrostatic experiments. They experimented with ever-lengthening hemp cords, at the end of which hung an ivory ball and Gänsefederchen attracted. The called Lines of Communication.

To prove that human body conduct electricity, they replace on 8 April 1730 hemp cords by a school boy she hung horizontally on Roßhaarschlingen. Under his outstretched arm, a business card stand was provided with Staniolblättchen. When a charged glass tube it was held at the soles of the feet, the Staniolblättchen flew into his hand.

Over several years they shared a substances in electrical conductors and non-conductors.