Wimshurst Machine 24cm disc

Wimshurst Machine 24cm disc

Wimshurst Machine

Disc Diameter: ~24 cm (235mm)

Base Dimensions: 300x220mm

Spark Distance: 50mm

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-rotating discs mounted in a vertical plane, two crossed bars with metallic brushes, and a spark gap formed by two metal spheres.