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  • Static electricity. A child plays with a plasma globe in a museum. A plasma globe is a large glass vessel, containing a gas at low pressure. A voltage of static electricity is applied between the metal sphere at centre and the glass. Static discharge across the gas causes its atoms to lose their electrons, a 'plasma' state. When the nuclei and their electrons recombine, they emit a characteristic color light. Placing an object against the glass, such as the child's hand, concentrates the local static charge and creates the beautiful 'streamer' effect seen here. Photographed at the Boston Museum of Science. MODEL RELEASED (1991)
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  • Bill Wysock in his backyard, in Monrovia (near Hollywood), California. Fiery sparks crackle from a metal tube as he also lights a 40-watt light bulb in his hands. He is sitting on a metal disk linked by a cable to his Tesla coil: a transformer producing high-frequency currents that pass safely over the surface of his body. Low-frequency currents would pass through it, meeting resistance and causing injury. MODEL RELEASED (1992)
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  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented this model in 1931. MODEL RELEASED (1992)
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  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented this model in 1931. MODEL RELEASED (1992)
    USA_SCI_LIG_04_xs.jpg
  • Rocket launch preparation. Technicians preparing several balloons for use in an amateur rocket launch. These helium-filled balloons will be used to lift a rocket on its launch platform to around 35,000 metres up. The rocket will then automatically launch, reaching a height of some 80 kilometres. This project is being done by JP Aerospace, an amateur rocketry organization which aims to place the first amateur object in orbit. Photographed in the Black Rock desert, Nevada, USA.
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  • Natural History Museum, London, UK
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  • Launching weather balloon with field mills into storm. Balloon is 1500 cubic feet surplus nylon with fins that is tethered and carries an electronic field meter. Langmuir Atmospheric Research Lab on Mt. Baldy, New Mexico (1992)
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  • Bill Wysock in his backyard, in Monrovia (near Hollywood), California. Fiery sparks crackle from a metal tube as he also lights a 40-watt light bulb in his hands. He is sitting on a metal disk linked by a cable to his Tesla coil: a transformer producing high-frequency currents that pass safely over the surface of his body. Low-frequency currents would pass through it, meeting resistance and causing injury. MODEL RELEASED (1992)
    USA_SCI_LIG_10_xs.jpg
  • Van de Graaff generator display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . Pamela Gross demonstrates static electricity. A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator used to produce a high voltage, usually in the megavolt range. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented it. The generator creates a negative charge of static electricity. When the girl touches the dome the charge passes from the dome (where it would otherwise be stored) on to her hands, and through to her hair. As the individual hairs become charged they repel each other, causing them to stand on end.  MODEL RELEASED (1991)
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  • Van de Graaff generator display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pamela Gross demonstrates static electricity. A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator used to produce a high voltage, usually in the megavolt range. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented it. The generator creates a negative charge of static electricity. When the boy touches the dome the charge passes from the dome (where it would otherwise be stored) on to his hands, and through to his hair. As the individual hairs become charged they repel each other, causing them to stand on end. (1991)
    USA_SCI_LIG_07_xs.jpg
  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented this model in 1931. MODEL RELEASED (1992).
    USA_SCI_LIG_05_xs.jpg
  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented this model in 1931. MODEL RELEASED (1992)
    USA_SCI_LIG_03_xs.jpg
  • Boston Museum of Science electrostatic display operator, Don Salvatore, demonstrates the safety of a Faraday cage as he is protected from a 2.5-million-volt Van de Graaff static electricity generator. A Faraday cage is an earthed screen made of metal wire that surrounds an electric device in order to shield it from external electrical fields. Artificial lightning passes through the metal frame. Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff invented the generator in 1931. (1992)
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  • Launching weather balloon with field mills into storm. Balloon is 1500 cubic feet surplus nylon with fins that is tethered and carries an electronic field meter. Langmuir Atmospheric Research Lab on Mt. Baldy, New Mexico (1992)
    USA_SCI_LIG_16_xs.jpg
  • Launching weather balloon with field mills into an approaching electrical lightning storm.. Langmuir Atmospheric Research Lab on Mt. Baldy, New Mexico (1992) Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius..
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  • Launching weather balloon with field mills into an approaching electrical lightning storm. Langmuir Atmospheric Research Lab on Mt. Baldy, New Mexico (1992) Lightning occurs when a large electrical charge builds up in a cloud, probably due to the friction of water and ice particles. The charge induces an opposite charge on the ground, and a few leader electrons travel to the ground. When one makes contact, there is a huge backflow of energy up the path of the electron. This produces a bright flash of light, and temperatures of up to 30,000 degrees Celsius.
    USA_SCI_LIG_14_xs.jpg
  • Static electricity. Young boy holding the dome of a Van de Graaff generator, which makes his hair stand on end. The generator creates a negative charge of static electricity. When the boy touches the dome the charge passes from the dome (where it would otherwise be stored) on to his hands, and through to his hair. As the individual hairs become charged they repel each other, causing them to stand on end. Photographed at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, USA. MODEL RELEASED (1991)
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  • Rocket launch preparation. Technicians preparing several balloons for use in an amateur rocket launch. These helium-filled balloons will be used to lift a rocket on its launch platform to around 35,000 metres up. The rocket will then automatically launch, reaching a height of some 80 kilometers. JP Aerospace, an amateur rocketry organization, which aims to place the first amateur object in orbit, is doing this project. Photographed in the Black Rock desert, Nevada, USA.
    USA_SCI_RCKT_05_xs.jpg
  • Kuwait Towers, Kuwait City, Kuwait. From the government website: One of Kuwait's most famous landmarks, the Kuwait Towers are situated on Arabian Gulf Street on a promontory to the east of the City centre in Dasman. The uppermost sphere of the largest tower (which is 187 meters high) has a revolving observation area and a restaurant with access by high speed lifts. The entrance fee is 350 fils per person, or free if lunch or dinner has been reserved. Cameras with zoom lens are forbidden. The middle tower contains 1 million gallons of water. (Source information comes from: www.kuwait-info.com). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Kuwait Towers, Kuwait City, Kuwait. From the government website: One of Kuwait's most famous landmarks, the Kuwait Towers are situated on Arabian Gulf Street on a promontory to the east of the City centre in Dasman. The uppermost sphere of the largest tower (which is 187 meters high) has a revolving observation area and a restaurant with access by high speed lifts. The entrance fee is 350 fils per person, or free if lunch or dinner has been reserved. Cameras with zoom lens are forbidden. The middle tower contains 1 million gallons of water.? (Source information comes from: www.kuwait-info.com). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Kuwait Towers, Kuwait City, Kuwait. From the government website: One of Kuwait's most famous landmarks, the Kuwait Towers are situated on Arabian Gulf Street on a promontory to the east of the City centre in Dasman. The uppermost sphere of the largest tower (which is 187 meters high) has a revolving observation area and a restaurant with access by high speed lifts. The entrance fee is 350 fils per person, or free if lunch or dinner has been reserved. Cameras with zoom lens are forbidden. The middle tower contains 1 million gallons of water.? (Source information comes from: www.kuwait-info.com). (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.).
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  • Driving with a joystick, MIT graduate student Joseph Spano takes a spin in the ball-wheelchair he is helping to design. The chair, which uses spheres instead of wheels, automatically compensates for movement, if Spano reaches down, the chair responds by thrusting out its "wheels" to prevent him from toppling over. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 180.
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  • Opalized fossil remains of the stomach of a plesiosaur. The stomach contents have been fossilized by replacement of the organic matter with tiny spheres of hydrous silicon oxide (opal). This allows paleontologists to study the diet of this marine dinosaur. As well as providing insights into its feeding habits, the stomach contents may give valuable clues as to the climate in the region in which the dinosaur lived some 120 million years ago. This specimen was found in Australia and is kept at the Sydney Museum.  [1989].
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  • Nano / Micro Technology: Eric Drexler. Portrait of US nanotechnologist and author Eric Drexler. He is seated in front of a computer simulation of a diamondoid molecular bearing model of a robot he designed. This nanotechnology robot is so tiny it is made up of a precise number of atoms (orange and grey spheres). Although still on the frontiers of science, a robot like this may one day assemble molecules one-by-one, eat up pollutants, function as computers the size of a virus, or patrol the human body in search of cancer tumors. Eric Drexler developed the concept of nanotechnology in his books The Engines of Creation and Nanosystems. Model Released [1996]
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Peter Menzel Photography

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