The Van de Graaff generator is a staple of science museums, to the point that even if the average person might not know its name, there’s an excellent chance they’ll be familiar with the ...

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Static electricity often just seems like an everyday annoyance when a wool sweater crackles as you pull it off, or when a doorknob delivers an unexpected zap. Regardless, the phenomenon is much ...

A Van de Graaff can make the flame of the candle flicker ... A few loops of the belt leave an extremely positively charged ball. Now what? The generator can be used for any number of things ...

How many of you guys have ever seen one of these before? Raise your hands, if you've ever seen a Van de Graaf generator before. Excellent, this was invented by Robert Van de Graaf, in 1933 and I ...

This small amphitheater is actually the permanent home of the largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator on the planet—a pair of 40-foot high spheres crackling with up to 5,000,000 volts of ...

Static charge builds up on the Van de Graaff generator dome. Many different individual demos can be done with it. The Van de Graaff can be used to charge up the hair of a Barbie doll or person. When ...