the more charged the material will become. In this Van de Graaff generator, the bottom roller’s outer surface is teflon, which is near the negative end. The belt is rubber, which is in the ...

[Markus Bindhammer] has reconstructed this machine, which formed the basis for later work by the likes of Wimshurst and Van de Graaff ... attract small pieces of material.

It does this by generating an “electric wind.” A Van de Graaff is a metal ball set on top of a rotating loop of belt. At the bottom of the loop is a comb that is kept positively charged.

Van de Graaff in 1929: by static electricity. The collider used a fabric belt that rotated very fast, creating friction and up to five million volts of electricity, which was used to speed up ...

To Van de Graaff belongs the credit of making a type of particle accelerator based on the simplest possible conception. Electric charge, sprayed on to a moving belt, is carried into a sphere ...