Delaborde, R.P., 1730-1777

found: The electric harpsichord, c1979:t.p. (Jean-Baptiste de Laborde) p. v (the author was a Jesuit)

found: New Grove(La Borde (Delaborde), Jean-Baptiste (Thillaie, Thillais, Thillaès) de; b.6/9/1730; d. late Jan. 1777)

found: Grove Music Online, WWW site, July 24, 2015(French physical scientist and mathematician. He invented the first known electric-powered musical instrument. On 26 September 1745 he began his novitiate in the Society of Jesus. He taught rhetoric in Amiens around 1755, and passed his third year of novitiate at Rouen in 1762, just at the time of the suppression of the Jesuit order in France. After spending a few years in Poznań, Poland, he served as a priest in Colancelle until his death.)