Electrostatic motors, for which the basic principle hasn’t changed since Franklin built the first practical example, are different. The force in these motors comes not from the movement of electrons but from the attraction and repulsion between negative and positive charges in components—the same type of static charge that gives you a shock when you touch a doorknob after shuffling across the carpet in winter.
Franklin’s original model—which he first demonstrated to the public in 1749 as a rotisserie to cook a turkey—is an illustrative example.
Rather than being pushed by a continuous electromagnetic field, the axle of Franklin’s motor included brass sewing thimbles that had their charge reversed as they passed one of four glass jars that store electric charge, one at each corner of the device. This meant every thimble had either a positive or negative charge, and was therefore attracted to the next glass jar and repelled by the one it just passed. [Wikipedia]
Franklin's electrostatic machine is a high-voltage static electricity-generating device used by Benjamin Franklin in the mid-18th century for research into electrical phenomena. Its key components are a glass globe which turned on an axis via a crank, a cloth pad in contact with the spinning globe, a set of metal needles to conduct away the charge developed on the globe by its friction with the pad, and a Leyden jar – a high-voltage capacitor – to accumulate the charge. Franklin's experiments with the machine eventually led to new theories about electricity and inventing the lightning rod.
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12.27 - Potentials
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Chart of Locked Potentials
cold multiplies electric potential
coupled potential gradient
CURRENT-FREE POTENTIAL
curvature of electric potential pressure
depotentialization
difference tone
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electric potential difference
electric potential
electromagnetic potential
electrostatic attraction
electrostatic compressional energy
electrostatic force
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Figure 12.11 - Russells Locked Potential Full Ten Octave Gamut
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Potential
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Vector Potential
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