Among the first electrostatic machines, the one developed by Edward Nairne, a skilled English instrument maker of the second half of the eighteenth century, should be mentioned. This electrostatic generator is little known, however it was used in medical field for over a century. […]
In 1666 Newton used a glass prism to decompose white light and make the so-called “rainbow” colors appear. The next step was to get the white light back from that “rainbow”. To do this, different techniques can be adopted, we will examine one in particular, […]