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    A Marx generator is an electrical circuit first described by Erwin Otto Marx in 1924. Its purpose is to generate a high-voltage pulse from a low-voltage...
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  • from the Kirby series of video games Marx generator, an electrical circuit which produces high-voltage pulses St. Marx cemetery, Landstraße, Vienna This...
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    pulse was produced by a pair of Marx generators built by Maxwell Laboratories of San Diego, California. The generators were mounted on pedestals constructed...
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    surge generator of cascaded connection. (The Cascade connection was another important invention of Ányos Jedlik.) One form is the Marx generator, named...
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  • is notable for containing what is believed to be the world's largest Marx generator, which was originally created to help test lightning insulation in military...
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  • Erwin Otto Marx (1893–1980) was a German electrical engineer who invented the Marx generator, a device for producing high voltage electrical pulses. He...
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  • evident to Soviet scientists conducting nuclear fusion research. The Marx generator, which stores energy in capacitors, was the only device capable at the...
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    semicircular corona rings attached to each end of the diode rectifier tubes. Marx generator Voltage multiplier Bidin, Noriah (January 2010). "High voltage Switch...
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    power stroke. Spark gaps are also used to switch heavy currents in a Marx generator and to protect electrical apparatus. In electric discharge machining...
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  • Nearly all of these large EMP simulators used a specialized version of a Marx generator. Examples include the huge wooden-structured ATLAS-I simulator (also...
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    use in research that won them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951). Marx generator (a device that uses spark gaps instead of diodes as the switching elements...
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    end injects an intense electron beam, such as from a Marx generator or a flux compression generator, optionally with a suitable pulse forming network, e...
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    eyes from the ultraviolet rays. Arc transmitter List of light sources Marx generator Spark gap Vacuum arc Paschen's law "The Arc Species "Zoo"". Arc Suppression...
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  • Practical radio Orlando R. Marsh Electrical sound recording Erwin Otto Marx Marx generator high voltage DC Mabel Lucy Matthews British electrical and production...
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    "pulser". Pulse (signal processing) Pulse generator Pulsed power Thyratron Thyristor Triggered spark gaps Marx generator Crossatron Pulsed laser Radar Haddad...
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    bank of capacitors and triggered by a spark gap, known as a Marx Bank or Marx generator. As the conductivity of plasma is fairly good, about that of...
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    microexplosion, with a gigavolt super-Marx generator, which is a Marx Generator driven by up to 100 ordinary Marx generators. In 1983, Winterberg became involved...
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  • ampere), with a risetime of less than 100 ns. This is an improvement over Marx generator based pulsed power devices which require pulse compression to achieve...
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    between 500 and 1000 amperes. The high voltage may be generated using a Marx generator. Low-impedance capacitors and low-impedance coaxial cables are required...
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    hardware from its original state. In devices such as electrostatic generators, Marx generators, and tube-type television sets, the current load caused by corona...
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    cylindrical. On the outside it houses huge capacitors discharging through Marx generators which generate a one microsecond high-voltage pulse. This pulse is...
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    generated. This device was a mechanical predecessor of the modern-day Marx generator. Using this device, Planté explored the electrical breakdown of air...
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  • flux compression generator Faraday's law of induction Gamma-ray burst Geomagnetic storm High-altitude nuclear explosion Marx generator Nuclear terrorism...
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    Korotkov, S; Aristov, Y; Kozlov, A; Korotkov, D; Rol'nik, I (March 2011). "A generator of electrical discharges in water". Instruments & Experimental Techniques...
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    the magnetrons, for use with slapper detonators, or for triggering a Marx generator. Crossatron Thyratron Krytron Trigatron, Virtual Valve Museum Trigatron...
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  • missing. Among the appliances he made was a Marx generator power supply, which could serve as a generator to charge the capacitor bank. An examination...
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    Aurora KrF Laser at Los Alamos The NIKE laser system starts with a Marx generator that forms a large voltage pulse. This is applied to a solid state (or...
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    discharged at high current. Examples include pulsed lasers, railguns, Marx generators, fusion, ultrastrong pulsed magnetic field research, and nuclear bomb...
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  • from tides, waves, or salinity or temperature gradients of the ocean. Marx generator A kind of circuit for generating very high DC voltage pulses. Maser...
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  • ion-beam or solid object driver. The workhorse of pulsed power (the Marx Generator) has limitations for an ICF plant and research has gone into Linear...
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