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 ...

A technology pioneered by Benjamin Franklin is being revived to build more efficient electric motors, an effort in its ...

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 ...

Anduril Rocket Motor Systems has marked a significant advancement in affordable propulsion technology with the successful ...

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 ...