Re: wimshurst (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:45:35 -0500
From: John Richardson <jprich@xxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: wimshurst (fwd)

The Edmund Scientific machines, one of which I had as a kid, was made with
two phono records.  The outsides were blank, but I remember "disassembling"
it, and the insides of the discs were certainly records.  I need to find the
machine and disassemble it and play the records.   My guess is they used
early Chicago albums that didn't sell!

John Richardson

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Subject: wimshurst (fwd)


> Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:29:41 -0400
> From: davep <davep@xxxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: wimshurst
>
> (minor point:
> It's WIMSHURST...  8)>>)
>
> I vaguely recall that mid size machines can be built
> with LP 'vinyl' phonograph records.
>
> Not so decorative as glass, or plexi, or ... but a lot
> more available.  (flea markets, yard sales).
>
> (OK:
> How many people don't know what a phonograph
> record is?
> Answers OFF LIST  8)>>)
>
> Small machine from discarded AOL CDs?
> (yes: There is a Al inner layer...??)
>
> best
> dwp
>
> ...the net of a million lies...
> Vernor Vinge
> There are Many Web Sites which Say Many Things.
> -me
> ...for he has read everything, and written nothing...
> A J Raffles
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