Re: [TCML] sparks from water

[jimlux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz wrote:
> jimlux wrote:
> > google "Kelvin water dropper"
> >
> > A bit tricky to get them to work (insulation is the key) but lots of 
> > fun. You can build really big ones (using things like 2 gallon metal 
> > pails) or tiny ones.
> >
> > Somewhere around I have a paper from the 19th century describing one 
> > using a sort of shower head.
> Probably this:
> http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/fuller1.jpg
> http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/fuller2.jpg
> http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/fuller3.jpg
> http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/fuller4.jpg
> M. Fuller, "Machine à influence à jet d'eau," La Lumiére électrique, 
> Vol. 33, 39, 28 September 1889, pp. 623-626.

That's the one, and it was from you.  I actually have some of the parts 
(cheap shower heads on sale) and I've just never got around to building it.

I was thinking about doing it as a clever garden sculpture
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