Wimshurst Electric Machine

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“The essential parts of an ordinary Wimshurst machine, are two ordinary drums. On each plate are fixed a large number of strips of conducting material which are equal in size and are equally spaced, radially if on a plate, and circumferentially if on a drum.” — Hawkins, 1917

Source

Hawkins and Staff Hawkins Electrical Guide Number One (New York: Theo. Audel and Company, 1917) 26

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