John Michell The webpage The Michell-Cavendish Experiment (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~lhodges/Michell.htm), by Laurent Hodges, gives a short biography of the under appreciated Michell. Another source on Michell is John Michell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michell) wikipedia. Michell's torsion balance was similar to Coulomb's, who measured the much stronger force of attraction between charged particles. Who was first, Coulomb or