"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
While sorting through some books that I had stacked on my floor, I found ::amazon(“0071373233”, “Homemade Lightning”):: on my shelf. Building a Wimhurst static machine would be a cool project. Searching around the web, I found this great page on Electrostatic Machines which has lots of cool information.
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