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Johann Heinrich Winckler Electrician With Soul
There were no qualified structural engineers when Greeks and Romans built their magnificent buildings. Likewise,…
I tripped over a shrinking bank balance and fell into the writing gig unintentionally. This was after I escaped the corporate world and searched in vain for ways to become rich on the internet by doing nothing. Despite the fact that writing is no recipe for wealth, I rather enjoy it. I will not deny I am obsessed with it when I have the time. I live in Margate on the Kwazulu-Natal south coast of South Africa. I work from home where I ponder on the future of the planet, and what lies beyond in the great hereafter. Sometimes I step out of my computer into the silent riverine forests, and empty golden beaches for which the area is renowned. Richard
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There were no qualified structural engineers when Greeks and Romans built their magnificent buildings. Likewise,…
Battery Experiments
If you have been following recent posts in this blog, then you’ll know Leyden capacitors…
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The path to the truth concerning the origin of multiple capacitors in series is quite…
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We have come such a long way from the birth of electricity, it is hard…
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Electricity was a new science in the middle-eighteenth century. Nobody had experienced a bad electric…
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Prussian aristocrat Ewald Georg von Kleist created a ‘Leyden Jar’ on October 17, 1745, that…
Battery Experiments
A resistor-capacitor circuit is an electrical system comprising resistors and capacitors. These ‘RC circuits’ are…
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We say ‘creates, and not ‘invents’ because energy history is uncertain here. Suffice to say…
Battery Basics
Capacitors can’t produce their own electrons, so they have to rely on external sources. We…
Battery Basics
A battery is a store of electro-chemical energy it releases as electricity on demand. We…