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Categories: 1929 introductions, Electrical generators, Accelerator physics, American inventions, Electrostatic generators
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electrostatic generator  electrostatic machine  Wimshurst machine  Van de Graaff generator  Wimshurst machine 3.1416
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The Wimshurst machine or Wimshurst influence machine is an electrostatic generator, a machine for generating high voltages developed between 1880 and 1883 by British inventor James Wimshurst. Wikipedia
An electrostatic generator, or electrostatic machine, is an electrical generator that produces static electricity, or electricity at high voltage and low continuous current. Wikipedia
A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator which uses a moving belt to accumulate electric charge on a hollow metal globe on the top of an insulated column, creating very high electric potentials. Wikipedia
An electrostatic generator Wikipedia Disambiguation
Electrostatic generator that produces high voltages by accumulated tribocharging Wikidata
A device in which an electric charge is built up on a large spherical electrode by means of a rapidly moving belt. Wiktionary
Device in which an electric charge is built up by means of a moving belt. Wiktionary (translation)