Ottonis de Guericke Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de vacuo spatio
55. First Rotary Generator
This work (which appears twice in this list) is critical because of its
description of the first electric rotary generator. Guericke invented this
device that produced static electricity by generating friction against a
moving ball of sulfur. This copy was once owned by the noted book collector,
Herbert McLean Evans.
Creator:
Guericke, Otto von
Published:
Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge, 1672
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