Electrostatic generators

electrostatic generator that produces high voltages by accumulated tribocharging

Device that generates electrical charge on a high voltage electrode

electrostatic generator

thumb|Electrophorus from the 1800s.

type of electrostatic generator

thumb|right|The 2.5 MeV Pelletron accelerator SIRIUS at the École polytechnique A Pelletron is a type of electrostatic generator, structurally similar to a Van de Graaff generator. Pelletrons have been built in many sizes, from small units producing voltages up to 500 kilovolts (kV) and beam energies up to 1 megaelectronvolt (MeV) of kinetic energy, to the largest system, which has reached a DC voltage of over 25 megavolts and produced ion beams with energies over 900 MeV.

19th-century medical treatment