James Wimshurst
James Wimshurst (13 April 1832 – 3 January 1903) was an English inventor, engineer and shipwright. Though Wimshurst did not patent his machines and the various improvements that he made to them, his refinements to the electrostatic generator led ...
(1832–1903), English inventor, engineer and shipwright
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Wimshurst machine
The 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).
It has a distinctive appearance with two large contra-rot ...
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electrostatic
Electrostatics is a branch of physics that studies electric charges at rest (static electricity).
Since classical times, it has been known that some materials, such as amber, attract lightweight particles after rubbing. The Greek word for amber ...
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Ken Wimshurst
Kenneth Pinkney Wimshurst (23 March 1938 – 6 July 2017) was an English footballer who played as a right half. He made over 300 Football League appearances in the years after the Second World War.
Career
Ken Wimshurst played locally for South ...