The Wimshurst machine is one of the oldest and best known electrostatic machines, consisting of its iconic two counter rotating disks and two Leyden jars. Most often you see someone hand cranking it, ...

Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as you pull it off, or when a doorknob delivers an unexpected zap. Regardless, the phenomenon is much more ...

This electrostatic machine will spark from the round discharge electrodes when the crank is turned steadily. The crank rotates Plexiglas wheels that have small metal discs on them. Redistribution of ...

UNLIKE a car’s engine, the Wimshurst machine will self-start but does need an initial shove to get the wheels moving against the electric field. UNLIKE a car’s engine, the Wimshurst machine will ...

AMONG the best-known inventors of electrical machines of the last part of the nineteenth century was James Wimshurst, the centenary of whose birth occurs on April 13. The son of Henry Wimshurst ...

IT may interest those who wish to repeat Hertz's experiments on electro-magnetic radiation to know that many of these can be done very well by using a small Wimshurst machine in place of the usual ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. People from ancient times knew that ...

The Wimshurst machine is an electrical generator developed by British inventor James Wimshurst in 1832. The Wimshurst machine is an electrical generator developed by British inventor James Wimshurst ...