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Definition of: Wimshurst machine
(wimz′hûrst)
A machine for the generation of static electricity by means of two insulated rotating disks carrying a number of equally spaced strips of conducting material which, by friction, build up an electrostatic charge. [after James Wimshurst, 1832–1903, English engineer, its inventor]
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