Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Ben Franklin, when he was doing his
experiments with electricity, put to plates close together hooked up to his
static generator, & charge them? That part I'm pretty sure is true. But it
seems like he then could take one of the plates away for a while & when he
put it closely back together he could then discharge it. If that's true, how
could the charge be stored in the air separating the two, especially when
the air was circulating, which I'm sure it was? Maybe it was because it was
a static charge, like we get in the winter from walking on carpet. I guess
I'll have to look back at his experiments.
Jim
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 17:47:10 -0500
From: Jim Purcell <jpurcell@...>
Subject: Re: Re: Fuses vs. resistors
Guillermo,
it's stored in vacuum capacitors.
That's a good one! I would be very grateful if you tell me the
Have to get it from someone besides me. I'm neither a physicist,
nor an engineer, although I challenge an engineer to explain it. :-)
Jim
