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Electrical Experiments for Entertainment Purposes Listen These exhibits are experimental setups made for entertainment's sake. They could be found in the parlours of educated families throughout the 1
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Coulomb's Torsion Balance Listen Coulomb's Torsion Balance is a setup based on two glass cylinders, one of 65cm length with a torsion micrometer (fig.2, right) is placed on a glass plate that rests on
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Geiger Müller counter tube Listen The Geiger Müller counter tube is one of the earliest measurement devices for the field of radioactivity. Walter Müller developed it under the auspices of his thesis
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Litrameter Listen Robert Hare was a lecturer in chemistry at Pennsylvania University. His litrameter was represented in science periodicals of both the old and new world. By his own account he used st
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Camera Lucida Listen The Camera Lucida, sometimes known as Wollaston prism, consists of an upright brass column, to which a prism holder is mounted. By looking through the prism you can see a sheet of
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Barlow's Wheel Listen Barlow's Wheel is the prototype of unipolar engine. Peter Barlow published its description in 1822 in the article "A curious electro-magnetic experiment". The star-shaped copper
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Henley's Quadrant Electrometer Listen Henley's variation of a quadrant electrometer consists of an upright column with a brass stand. Attached to the column is a wire with an elder pith ball. If the i
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Reading Stone Listen A Reading Stone is a thick plano-convex lens and can be considered to be the prototype of modern magnifying glasses. It was and still is put to use to magnify minute writings. fur
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Electrical Sportsman Listen The Electrical Sportman is operated with the help of an electrostatic generator that charges the Leyden Jar on the base plate of the setup. The ‘Birds’ are electrically con
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Electrical Hailstorm Listen The Electrical Hailstorm works based on attraction and repulsion of electrostatic forces between the elder pith balls in a condensator setup. Once an electrostatic charge h