"Static Electricity" Page

Billb's Build-it Projects:

• VandeGraaff Generator Page
• Ridiculously Sensitive Charge Detector
• ELECTROSTATIC MOTOR made from plastic pop bottles.
• ELECTROSTATIC GENERATOR, electrophorus, a simple one
• ELECTROSTATIC GENERATOR, "Kelvin's Thunderstorm"
• ELECTROSTATIC GENERATOR, In-line waterdropper
• SEE electric and magnetic fields with this simple viewing bottle
• ARRAY ELECTROMETER makes e-fields visible
• Commercial Source for electrostatic generators (kit or assembled)
• Reports from other hobbyists (add yours!)

Articles here:

• Car-door sparks, electric people
• "Static electricity" really means "High Voltage"
• Charged Air, suggested (untried) experiments
• What A Shocking Career
• Threadlike streams of "electric wind"
• Static Electricity versus Current Electricity
• "STATIC ELECTRIC" MISCONCEPTIONS
• Nanoamp current meter
• Electrostatics books
• Hints for electrostatic device construction
• Negative Ion Generator as HV power supply
• Explaining "static electricity" with colored plastic sheets.
• Sticky Electrostatics: adhesive tape experiments
• A Bit About Wimshurst Machines
• Triboelectric Series, rubbing fur on plastic
• The Duluc Drypile where batteries meet "static"
• "Zerostat" record-cleaner gun
• Solving Humidity Problems
• Sparks and lightning
• Flowing "static"
• Electronics Hobbyist Page

Projects elsewhere:

• La construction de la machine de Wimshurst (en français)
• CURIOUS KIDS Static Electric activity
• Nova: indoor lightning
• Nat's homebuilt electrostatic generators
• Electrostatics projects at "solaris"
• Rubbing Teflon, story from Pease Porridge
• Electrostatic Loudspeaker Project
• Exploratorium demos
• U. Rochester Demos
• Simple Generator from Leny R's SPARK, BANG, BUZZ
• Generators by G. Shannon
• Highway to Science activities
• Demos links at J. of Electrostatics
• Boston MOS static activities

Websites elsewhere:

• Electrostatics Society of America
• Journal of Electrostatics and index
• ESD Journal

• DMOZ: High Voltage
• Video: aircraft lightning strike
• Electric Snowflakes
• Lightning Webring
• FAQ Page: Problems caused by "Static"
• Gasoline fires
  • Chevron warning
  • PEI Letter
  • Fire report summary
  • Gas can fires
• Clarendon Dry Pile, "perpetual motion" that works
• The Bakken Museum & Library, historical electrical devices
• ELECTROSTATICS by A. D. Moore now in reprint
• The Control of Body Voltage Getting Out of a Car
• The Control of Static Electricity
• Electrostatic Machines
• Electrostatics Applications Inc. (electrostatics books)
  • Links Collection fm/EAI
  • Book Catalog fm/EAI
• PIRA's list of Electrostatic Physics Demonstrations
• Historical Electrostatic Machines, Polytechnique, France
• NCSSM Electrostatics Lab Activity
• TSU Maryland VDG demos
• Electrostatic machines list from NCSU
• Electrostatic, U. Virginia
• Lorente's generator
• Condensation causes electrification??!
• Negatively charged air
• Giant VDG in Boston
• Giant VDG in Boston, History
• A VDG project

Some Companies

• High Voltage Association company & products links
• Professional voltmeters, power supplies, etc.
• PV Instruments: electrostatic machines
• Resonance Research, VDG machines & tesla coils
• Monroe Electrostatics
• Trek Electrostatic Voltmeters
• J Chubb Inst. (UK)
• Ion Systems

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