Homemade Lightning: Creative Experiments in Electricity

Seems to be a modern replica of a book I was looking for from the fifties. It should do well for my teenage boys.

If you are anything like me and love to build things then this is a book for you. Not only do you get to play with wood but also you'll be playing with high voltage as well. The book has everything you need to know about building this lighting machine. With a little bit of re-measuring you can scale up or scale down your lightning machine. Excellent writing and easy to understand even for the beginner that wants to know and experiment with high voltage.

Rather disappointed in this. Partially because I expected something else, and partially because it goes off the rails into 'everything you know is wrong' pseudoscience. I thought from the limited preview and the description that this would have plans for historical machines. Instead it has plans for a couple of machines of the author's own devising, which are hybrids of several different designs. Historical designs are found only in reprinted articles from old magazines, without much construction detail. Then, towards the end it goes completely off the rails into the author's speculations about antigravity... It's going into the pseudoscience section of the library, next to Velikovsy, Pawlicki, and Casteneda.

The machine arrived with a broken handle but we were able to use it and the students used it to help understand electrostatic. I was disappointed that it had a broken handle but did not contact the company.l

very good book,fun experiments

Satisfied

This book is a comprehensive yet easy read in this field of Physics/Electricity/Generation of Discharges. It delivers so much more than expected ! As a warning : It may keep you up late at night thinking of experiments to run ...

It's okay but the illustrations are pretty bad. I use to do a lot of technical drawings and even for me that book is not easily understandable.

4 stars

very happy with my purchase, would have no hesitation shopping here again.

Pensavo a qualcosa di veramente a portata di esperimenti fatti in casa. Il libro fornisce spunti di reale interesse storico su i primi accumulatori di energia elettrica statica, piccoli spunti sulla ' frenklinizzazione " . Respiro accademico e poco assimilabile. Mi è passata presto la voglia di leggerlo.

Good!

esta en buen estado.