How to make the Wimshurst machine and some pictures were shamelessly copied from
http://www.netspace.net.au/~tphefley/index.html
without permission of anyone. But this is a great site and I highly recommend it.
Other pictures were taken from:
http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/toe.html
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/emotor/vdg.html
http://www.lehmanscientific.com/p_wims.html
I got some help with the theory of operation from:
Popular Electronics special insert on High Voltage Projects for Fun and Science Nov 1993
Van de Graff generators | Wimshurst machines | High Voltage/ General fun science |
http://www.netspace.net.au/~tphefley/index.html http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/1135/wimhurst.htm |