Wimshurst machine
Máquina de Wimshurst
- Date
- 1880-1883 · confidence high
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- James Wimshurst
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A high-voltage electrostatic generator with two counter-rotating discs, crossed bars with metallic brushes, and a two-sphere spark gap, developed by British inventor James Wimshurst.
What it led to
- Electrostatic generators for laboratories and science museums
- Educational electrostatics experiments