Robert Hare (chemist)
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Robert Hare (17 January 1781 - 15 May 1858)[1] was an American chemist.
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 17, 1781. He developed and experimented with the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, with Edward Daniel Clarke of Oxford, shortly after 1800. He married with Harriett Clark and had six children. He was professor at he University of Pennsylvania between 1810 and 1812 and between 1818 and 1847. By 1820s Hare developed the Deflagrator, a form of voltaic battery having large plates used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.
In 1854, he converted to Spiritism and wrote several books which made him very famous in the United-States as a Spiritualist. He died in Philadelphia on May 15, 1858.
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