This week he’s showing us how he made a large electrostatic motor, also known as a Corona Motor. A Corona motor makes use of a cool phenomenon called the Corona discharge, which is the ...

Electrostatic motors are now common in MEMS ... [via MSN/WSJ] While the first real application of an electric motor was Ben Franklin’s electrostatically-driven turkey rotisserie, electromagnetic ...

WE would like to direct the attention of readers to a new type of electrostatic motor which may find use in some specialized application. The operation of the motor demonstrates one of the ...

The static test of first stage solid motor (SS1) of ISRO 's Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) -- a new-generation compact rocket -- was not successful, according to sources in ISRO.