Bert Hickman’s archive mixes electrical engineering, high-voltage demonstrations, and the history of a BBS-era hobby. Its Quarter Shrinker uses a capacitor bank and a coil to deform a coin—and destroys the work coil in the process. Fascinating documentation, emphatically not a casual DIY project: the site warns about serious hazards.
Original experiment archive: https://capturedlightning.com/frames/Tesla0.html
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-captured-lightning-has-been-wreaking-havoc-with-electrons-since-1999/
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Original experiment archive: https://capturedlightning.com/frames/Tesla0.html
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-captured-lightning-has-been-wreaking-havoc-with-electrons-since-1999/
#ancientweb #teslacoil #electricalengineering #sciencehistory
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