Electric machine after Wimshurst

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ELE41
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The Wimshurst machine is an electrostatic device for generating high voltages developed between 1880 and 1883 by British inventor James Wimshurst (1832 – 1903). It has a distinctive appearance with two large contra-rotating discs mounted in a vertical plane, two cross bars with metallic brushes, and a spark gap formed by two metal spheres.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimshurst_machine



Data
Date: 
1900 (c.)
Dimensions: 
Length : 56cm, Height : 75cm

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