Back آلة ويمشورست Arabic Màquina de Wimshurst Catalan Wimshurst-generator Danish Wimshurstmaschine German Máquina de Wimshurst Spanish Elektrostaatiline masin Estonian Wimshurstin influenssikone Finnish Machine de Wimshurst French Էլեկտրածին սարք Armenian Macchina di Wimshurst Italian
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 Wimshurst machine with two Leyden jars | |
| Type | electrostatic generator |
|---|---|
| Inventor | James Wimshurst |
| Inception | c. 1880 |
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The Wimshurst machine or 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). [citation needed]
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.