Water dropper (was A solution for...) (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:57:41 -0200
From: Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz <acmq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Water dropper (was A solution for...)

High Voltage list wrote:

> From: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> I think Antonio has a scanned article from a Frenchman about 100 years ago
> who built a very nice "shower head" type water dropper, with 4 heads, four
> charging rings and 4 collectors.

It's paper p62 in http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/epapers.html

I have also a version in English (p103):
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/fuller1889.pdf

A version of the same machine with sectored disks instead of water
drops is Toepler's symmetrical machine:
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/toepler.html

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz