Talk:Electrostatic generator

message: These generators have been used, sometimes inappropriately and with some controversy, to support various fringe science investigations. In 1911, George Samuel Piggott received a patent for a compact double machine enclosed within a pressurized box for his experiments concerning radiotelegraphy and "antigravity". Much later (in the 1960s), the Testatika was built by German engineer, Paul Suisse Bauman, and promoted by a Swiss community, the Methernithans. Testatika is an electromagnetic generator based on the 1889 Pidgeon electrostatic machine, said to produce "free energy" available directly from the environment and which cannot be depleted (so it is available in effectively unlimited quantity). 204.56.7.1 21:30, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fringe science and devices

message: Why is there a picture of a plasma globe on this article? The caption beneath it says '...a "plasma globe", that does not use static electricity)'. As pretty as they are, surely they are not relevant here since don't use static electricity?
Kate (talk) 15:00, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: My vote as well that it is irrelevant to the subject of the article. Not everything that produces or uses high voltages is an electrostatic generator. The photo has been removed. Piperh (talk) 19:20, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Plasma Globe

message: The article as it reads is unfair on Guericke. The sentence "It ... was not intended to produce electricity (rather cosmic virtues)" in particular is funny but conveys the wrong impression. Guericke explicitly says his globe produced "electric attraction". Guericke may have believed that gravity and electricity were the same or related, since previously he compared the force produced by his globe to that of gravity. The text of Guericke was in Latin and in Latin the word virtus has a different meaning than in the English word virtue. In Latin it means power or force. Guericke refers to the virtus conservativa, which he says produces what we call our sense of weight (gravitas). So it was his term for the power of gravity. That term, the force of gravity, had not been invented before and there was no better word for it but that was clearly what he meant by virtus conservativa. He says that it operates between the sun and planets and attracts bodies to the earth. That is a very different picture from saying that Guericke believed his globe produced "cosmic virtues". The meaning that phrase conveys in English is completely wrong. In a different place in that book, Guericke explicitly said that "the attraction of the sulphur globe, mentioned in the earlier chapter, is the same as electric attraction" after referring to Gilbert's work on electricity, which was the only previous major work on the subject. The relevant passages are translated into English in Heathcote's article, quoted as a reference. That sentence about the globe's purpose being that of producing cosmic virtues should be deleted or appropriately edited. Skamnelis (talk) 15:37, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  No cosmic virtues but the force of gravity 

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message: :There are  fourteen entries in the "External links". Three seems to be an acceptable number and of course, everyone has their favorite to add for four. The problem is that none is needed for article promotion. 
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