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WIMSHURST MODEL

$ 434.20 excl. GST

•  This Wimshurst Model consists of transparent plates with radial aluminium segments driven in opposite directions by hand wheel and belt, with two leyden jars, mounted on moulded ABS base.
•  Two transparent plates are supported in two rigid uprights and driven by belt in opposite direction.
•  They are heavy, high resistance plastic with sectors of aluminium sheet.
•  Two Leyden Jars (condensers) made form corning glass and aluminium foil.
•  Mounted on a plastic or wooden base.

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WIMSHURST MODEL

•  This Wimshurst Model consists of transparent plates with radial aluminium segments driven in opposite directions by hand wheel and belt, with two leyden jars, mounted on moulded ABS base.
•  Two transparent plates are supported in two rigid uprights and driven by belt in opposite direction.
•  They are heavy, high resistance plastic with sectors of aluminium sheet.
•  Two Leyden Jars (condensers) made form corning glass and aluminium foil.
•  Mounted on a plastic or wooden base.

(Wikipedia excerpt: ..."...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 (1832–1903). [citation needed]

It has a distinctive appearance with two large contra-rotating discs mounted in a vertical plane, two crossed bars with metallic brushes, and a spark gap formed by two metal spheres....")

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