Monthly Archives: May 2007

Static Electricity from Water

Posted on May 26, 2007 by martinw

Here is a fascinating, old device: Lord Kelvin’s water drop static electricity generator. Here is a physics class demonstration of it. Do my drops suffer from this distortion? Well, I don’t have such a generator built (yet), so I don’t … Continue reading →

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A. M. Worthington – Simply brilliant

Posted on May 1, 2007 by martinw

When people think of high-speed photography, the name that most often comes to mind is Harold “Doc” Edgerton. And rightly so, as he contributed so much to the discipline. However, in 1876, A. M. Worthington wrote a paper entitled “A … Continue reading →

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