Re: wimshurst (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:15:04 -0500
From: Ralph Zekelman <hyperion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: wimshurst (fwd)

The arms on the generator were long enuff that when folded fully inward they
crossed. A piece of glass could be held vertically
against the supports of the discs while the arms reached
some distance out onto the glass. Its been a long time;
would you believe 18 inches on a dry day?  :-)

Ralph Zekelman
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> Probably because the electric field adjacent to the terminals, at
> the surface of the glass plate, was much more intense than at the
> machine's disks. The plate may have been dirty, and so it was easy
> to make long sparks track along its surface. But 20 inches?
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> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
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