A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator which uses a moving belt to accumulate electric charge on a hollow metal globe on the top of an...

generators. He spent most of his career in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Robert Jemison Van de Graaff was born in the Jemison-Van de...

together. The band name chosen from Smith's list was based on a Van de Graaff generator, an electro-mechanical device that produces static electricity...

Electrostatic generators such as the Van de Graaff generator, and variations as the Pelletron, also find use in physics research. Electrostatic generators can be...

physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff, whose groundbreaking work includes the invention of the Van de Graaff generator. Van de Graaff is one of the largest...

Trump. As the first PhD student of Robert Van de Graaff, Trump helped build the first electrostatic generator to reach potentials above one megavolt, then...

and its variants Van de Graaff generator, an electrostatic generator Van der Graaf Generator, English progressive rock band Van de Graaff accelerator, a...

reactions for research in nuclear power. It was the first industrial Van de Graaff generator in the world, and marked the beginning of nuclear research for...

high voltage research facility. He built a 40-foot (12 m) tall Van de Graaff generator in an abandoned airship hangar on Round Hill. The purpose was to...

particles. The most common types are the Cockcroft–Walton generator and the Van de Graaff generator. A small-scale example of this class is the cathode-ray...

high voltage research facility. He built a 40-foot (12 m) tall Van de Graaff generator in an abandoned airship hangar on Round Hill. The purpose was to...

A Pelletron is a type of electrostatic generator, structurally similar to a Van de Graaff generator. Pelletrons have been built in many sizes, from small...

was the older brother of physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff, the designer of the Van de Graaff generator which produces high voltages. Bully's two older...

event. ESD can also be man-made, as in the shock received from a Van de Graaff generator. An ESD event can damage electronic circuitry by injecting a high-voltage...

targets. Tesla claimed to have conceived of it after studying the Van de Graaff generator. Tesla described the weapon as being able to be used against ground-based...

involve voltages as high as 20,000 V. Electrostatic generators such as Van de Graaff generators and Wimshurst machines can produce voltages approaching...

electrically charged after coming into contact and are then separated. A Van de Graaff generator is based on this principle. Whistlers — Very low frequency radio...

Van de Graaf, also spelled van de Graaff, van der Graaf or van der Graaff, is a Dutch surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:...

Gauss's law Mobile phone jammer Mu-metal Mylar blanket Tesla coil Van de Graaff generator "Michael Faraday". Encarta. Archived from the original on 8 May...

electrostatic accelerators, such as the Cockcroft–Walton generator and the Van de Graaff generator. In these accelerators, particles would cross an accelerating...

Johan Carl Wilcke in 1762. Electrostatic generators, such as the Wimshurst machine, the Van de Graaff generator and the electrophorus, use this principle...

Younger still was Adrian's brother Robert J. Van de Graaff, the inventor of the Van de Graaff Generator which produces high voltages. Adrian was selected...

capable of producing megavoltage radiation, including the 1930s Van de Graaff generator and betatron. Orthovoltage X-rays External beam radiotherapy Podgorsak...

fields. Ice or water particles then accumulate charge as in a Van de Graaff generator. As a thundercloud moves over the surface of the Earth, an equal...

and coordinating research efforts based on a large electrostatic Van de Graaff generator. Later, he helped to build a pelletron at the University of São...

machines that worked by electrostatic induction. The Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator still used in research today. Homopolar machines...

a frozen-in-action shot of an electrical discharge from a real Van de Graaff generator machine, set in acrylic." Geoff Barton of Sounds wrote: "Where...

distinctive fan-shaped superstructure that was built to house a Van de Graaff generator. Nikolaus Pevsner commented that this marked "the arrival of the...

features the world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator, designed by Professor Robert J. Van de Graaff and donated by MIT in 1956. The show includes...

seen mostly in science demonstrations. Static electricity or a Van de Graaff generator will cause a lamp to flash momentarily as it discharges a high-voltage...