Giant Van de Graaff: The world’s largest Van de Graaff generator is housed in Boston’s Museum of Science and has two 4.5 m...

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A curious dispute between Benjamin Franklin and King George III over the shape of lightning conductors demonstrates the...

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During the eighteenth century, a craze for electrical demonstrations sprang up and itinerant lecturers toured fashionable...

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Battery bounce: The anecdotal observation that alkaline batteries that are low on charge bounce higher than fully charged ones...

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Electric extinguishers: It is not uncommon for a user to receive a small shock when they touch a grounded conductor after...

Stories from Physics 11-14 14-16

A 1966 report in The Journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists described a case of an explosion caused by an...

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