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From: butch@utastro.UUCP (Allan Butcher)
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Subject: Jacob's Ladders
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Date: Fri, 12-Sep-86 17:26:47 EDT
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   Does anybody know how to make a functioning Jacob's Ladder - you know,
the big "V" shaped apparatus that throws an arc of lightning upwards that
was always in the mad scientist's laBORatory ???   I know you need a lot
of voltage, but what else and how ???

thanks

Allan Butcher and Dave Doss
Univ of Texas McDonald Observatory
Near Fort Davis
Western Territories, Republic of TEXAS




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