Great discoverers in science must usually be satisfied with having their names attached to some one phase of scientific development, be it an instrument, a law, a unit of measurement, a process of investigation or some phenomenon which they first observed. The originality of Coulomb's genius will be better appreciated, since besides having a unit of electricity named after him, there is also a law in electro-magnetics and a torsion-balance that will always be associated with his name. Few men have been more ingenious in their ability to put complex ideas into practical shape and give them simple mechanical expression by instrumental methods. While his name is to be forever associated with the science of electrostatics, he was profoundly interested in other departments of physics, and for him to be interested always meant that he would illuminate previous knowledge by practical hints and suggestions and carry the conclusions of his predecessors a little farther into science than they had ever gone before. His was typically an experimental genius, and he must be considered one of the men of whom not more than half a dozen are born in a century, who are, in Kipling's strong term, "masterless"; who do not need to be taught, but who find for themselves a path into the domain of the unknown. Coulomb investigated the fundamental law in electricity and magnetism, that attractions and repulsions are inversely as the square of the distances, and showed that it held accurately for point-charges and point-poles. He demonstrated that these interesting phenomena were not chance manifestations of irregular forces, but that they represented a definite mode of action of force, thus setting this department of knowledge on a scientific basis. While in practical significance Ohm's Law, discovered nearly a half century later, is of much more import, Coulomb's discoveries are fundamental in character and, coming in the very beginnings of modern electrical science, did much to guide the infant science in the ways it should follow. The establishing of this law contributed very largely to the rapid development of the twin sciences of electricity and magnetism. It is experimental observation that means most for a rising science; and, in fact, that Coulomb should have been the pioneer in it stamps him as possessed not only of great originality, but also of the power of independent thinking, which is perhaps the most precious quality for the man of science.