He gave the first lectures on electricity in the American colonies:
- Ebenezer Kinnersley
- Cotton Mather
- Benjamin Franklin
- James Bowdoin
- John Winthrop IV
He gave the first lectures on electricity in the American colonies:
The first lectures on electricity in the American colonies were given by John Winthrop IV at Harvard in 1746. Winthrop, born in 1714, was the professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Harvard. Benjamin Franklin began his experiments in electricity in 1747.