An electrostatic generator, or electrostatic machine, is an electrical generator that produces static electricity, or electricity at high voltage and...

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...

actuator" U.S. patent 5,965,968 -- Robert, et al. -- "Electrostatic Motor" Electrostatic generator Nanomotor Oxford Electric Bell Daniel C. Ludois; Kevin...

professor Johan Carl Wilcke in 1762. Electrostatic generators, such as the Wimshurst machine, the Van de Graaff generator and the electrophorus, use this principle...

magnetism and electricity was discovered, electrostatic generators were invented. They operated on electrostatic principles, by using moving electrically...

An electrostatic precipitator (ESP) is a filterless device that removes fine particles, such as dust and smoke, from a flowing gas using the force of...

The large electrostatic generator (Dutch: Van Marum electriseermachine) is a large handcrafted electromechanical instrument designed by Martin van Marum...

Electrostatics is a branch of physics that studies slow-moving or stationary electric charges. Since classical times, it has been known that some materials...

scientist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) in 1867, is a type of electrostatic generator. Kelvin referred to the device as his water-dropping condenser...

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is a sudden and momentary flow of electric current between two differently-charged objects when brought close together or...

influence machines that worked by electrostatic induction. The Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator still used in research today. Homopolar...

radiation). The built up electrostatic energy can be turned into usable electricity in one of the following ways. A direct-charging generator consists of a capacitor...

Electrostatic levitation is the process of using an electric field to levitate a charged object and counteract the effects of gravity. It was used, for...

negative ions. Another type of air ioniser is the electrostatic discharge (ESD) ioniser (balanced ion generator) used to neutralise static charge. In 1918 Alexander...

their simpler design, electrostatic types were the first particle accelerators. The two most common types are the Van de Graaf generator invented by Robert...

The Wimshurst machine or Wimshurst influence machine is an electrostatic generator, a machine for generating high voltages developed between 1880 and...

inventing the lightning rod. Franklin was not the first to build an electrostatic generator. European scientists developed machines to generate static electricity...

have inherently excellent resistance to electrostatic discharge (ESD). In principle, any electrical generator can also serve as an electric motor, or...

A Pelletron is a type of electrostatic generator, structurally similar to a Van de Graaff generator. Pelletrons have been built in many sizes, from small...

electrophore is a simple, manual, capacitive, electrostatic generator used to produce charge via the process of electrostatic induction. A first version of it was...

examples of electrostatic energy generation is found in Lord Kelvin's Thunderstorm, a device invented in 1867. Similar to ion wind generators, the Thunderstorm...

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produce more tribocharge; other electrostatic generators followed. For instance, shown in the Figure is an electrostatic generator built by Francis Hauksbee...

power by using high-voltage grid electrodes to accelerate ions with electrostatic forces. The ion engine was first demonstrated by German-born NASA scientist...

coated with metal foil and allowed high-voltage discharges from an electrostatic generator to strike the outside of the room. He used an electroscope to show...

Marx generator supports this insofar as it uses short thick leads between its components, but the design is nevertheless essentially an electrostatic one...

A radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG, RITEG), sometimes referred to as a radioisotope power system (RPS), is a type of nuclear battery that uses...

transducer from a specialized pulse generator. Electrostatic discharge testing is typically performed with a piezo spark generator called an "ESD pistol". Higher...

full-scale electrostatic generator on electrically insulating legs. These machines, with 46 steam jets, he called his "hydroelectric generators". One was...

wind or electric wind is the airflow of charged particles induced by electrostatic forces linked to corona discharge arising at the tips of some sharp...