Franklin's electrostatic machine is a high-voltage static electricity-generating device used by Benjamin Franklin in the mid-18th century for research...

"touching a doorknob after walking across carpet in dry weather". Franklin's electrostatic machine Cohen, Paul S.; Cohen, Brenda H. (1998). America's Scientific...

Founders Online database of Franklin's papers Franklin's electrostatic machine Fugio Cent, 1787 coin designed by Franklin List of early American publishers...

the 250 anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth. Franklin's electrostatic machine Lightning rod "Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky"...

alternative type of electrostatic motor is the spacecraft electrostatic ion drive thruster where forces and motion are created by electrostatically accelerating...

who was Franklin's only surviving, marital child. In 1772, Franklin's sister Jane Franklin Mecom wrote him with news of his grandsons. Franklin replied...

An electrostatic generator, or electrostatic machine, is an electrical generator that produces static electricity, or electricity at high voltage and...

America in 1776. It is often illustrated with Franklin's famous snake cartoon Join, or Die. Benjamin Franklin's plan to unite the colonies exceeded the scope...

Historian Walter Isaacson writes that Franklin's theory was empirically based on the population data during his day. Franklin's reasoning was essentially correct...

electric sparks. Small Van de Graaff machines are produced for entertainment, and for physics education to teach electrostatics; larger ones are displayed in...