Electrostatics and the Electron

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The electron

• http://www.pparc.ac.uk/intro/electron/discoverage.html
  The Age of Discovery. The nineteenth century was a golden age of discovery for chemists and physicists, and saw a succession of major breakthroughs in understanding the nature of matter.
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• http://www.pparc.ac.uk/intro/electron/index.html
  100 years since the discovery of the electron. In 1897, in a laboratory at Cambridge University, J J Thomson discovered the electron, and proved that the atom was not the most basic building block of matter.
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• http://www.pparc.ac.uk/intro/electron/data.html
  Data on electrons.
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Wimshurst machine

• http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/images/physics/D+10+22.gif
  An illustrated description of a Wimshurst machine.
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Tesla

• http://home.navisoft.com/horn/tesla.htm
  A description of the life and work of Nikola Tesla.
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Electrostatics

• http://guernsey.uoregon.edu/~phdemo/demo/Electricity_and_Magnetism/EM-Electrostatics.html#Wimshurst Machine
  Examples of electrostatics demonstrations.
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Lightning

• http://thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/
  Lightning and atmospheric research.
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IEE Faraday Lecture

• http://www.iee.org.uk/Lectures/faracrnt.htm
  Information about the 1999 IEE Faraday Lecture.
  (Level: student and teacher)