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Electricity

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Blitzespiegel - Damen

Observe a Reflection, Watch Lightning Location: 2nd floor, staircase 1 (near the entrance)

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Blue Lightning Tube

by Wayne Strattman Somewhat oversized, but in principle a transparent fluorescent tube with an unorthodox gas filling. It is under relatively high pressure so…

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Electric circuit

What conducts electricity and what does not? What is an electrical circuit? With small, individual electrical components, you can build simple circuits…

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Electrostatic dance

Polystyrene ballet. A plastic plate is rubbed against a leather surface and thus electrostatically charged. The plastic plate is then placed on a copper…

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Emotion detector

Measuring skin resistance. The skin resistance is influenced by the subject's emotions: the stronger the emotions, the lower the resistance. Here, the skin…

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Feeling current

How strong is the effect of electricity? Here you can feel the sensation of electric current. To do this, you place two fingers on two contacts and increase…

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Generator track

A magnet generates electric current. A track with a magnetic toy railway on it runs through a large coil. When the toy track is moved in the coil, a current…

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High-voltage slide

Triboelectricity. A slide and its platform stand on several large insulators. Anyone who slides down is electrostatically charged. If you then touch the…

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Hovering between extremes

Experience the electrostatic force. Can the polystyrene ball float between the upper and lower hemispheres? No, but it can jump back and forth between…

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Human electrical circuit

Current flows through you. Several cubes with metal surfaces are placed near a larger cube. If you connect the surfaces of the cubes with your body, current…

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In urina musica - Herren

Water Music The urinal contains an electronic device. Depending on the contact point and intensity, the urine stream triggers various sensors that produce…

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Jellyfish

by Bernd Weinmayer A group of glass jellyfish - glassblowing art of the highest order - filled with colourful glowing neon and a few promillen of argon -…

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Ju-Ju Bees

As if by magic: glowing bugs. Inside a double-walled glass bowl filled with noble gas lie dozens of modified light bulbs, also filled with noble gas. A simple…

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Luminous sculptures

Three dimensional circuits. Two contacts are attached to each of three stations, which can be connected with the help of magnetic rods and iron balls. The…

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Multi-Color Luminglas

Glowing spider webs to lightning storms. "Multi-Color Luminglas™️" is a sandwich of glass plates filled with glass beads coated with phosphor. The interior…

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Neon Sinfonie

Pattern effect in plasma. A shimmering glass chalice – filled with fans of light. The "Plasma Chalice" demonstrates, in this chalice with an extremely long…

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Pedal generator

Generate electricity yourself. The pedal generator can make you sweat quite a bit just to boil a sip of water. How much (pedal) power do you think it takes…

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Plasma columns

Influence the clouds of mist. A red glowing plasma is generated in two glass columns by an electric field. If you touch the column, you change the electric…

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Plasma Top

No cable – and yet it glows! When placed on a curved glass surface, the noble gas inside the sealed spinning top transitions into plasma, energized by the…

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Plasmaspiegel - Herren

Control the Lightning A plasma tube is installed around the sink mirror. The lightning bolts can be influenced by touch. Location: 2nd floor, staircase 1…

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Soft landing

Confidence in Eddy Currents. Here you can let yourself fall backwards and rely on the braking effect of eddy current. Two strong magnets are attached to a…

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Solarmobile

Light becomes electric energy. The elements in this mobile each contain a solar cell and an electric motor. If you point the light of a lamp at one of the…

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Still Empty

“Still Empty”: The attempt to fill a glass with light. What a Sisyphean task! The beam (plasma, a secret mixture of noble gases) continuously flows into the…

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Swimming with the current

Single-cell organisms swim around in a chamber under a microscope. At the push of a button, the chamber can be put under voltage. The single-celled organisms…

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Terrella

Solar wind – particle shower – aurora borealis. Terra = Earth. Terrella is its diminutive form. But this one packs a punch! The small metallic globe at the…

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The twist with the coil

Current using earth’s magnetic field. A coil is rotated in the earth's magnetic field and thereby generates current. The current generated depends on the…

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White Plasma Plume

Art with the fourth state of matter. Beautiful, this work by Wayne Strattman. Elegant, the glowing white plumes in “White Plasma Plumes” as they move.…

Workshop-Links
IMG 0913 überarb

Do not try this @home - Mikrowelle inklusiv

In unserer Zeit muss alles schnell gehen. Wie hilfreich ist da die Mikrowelle! Aber wie funktioniert dieses Gerät eigentlich? Und warum kann man darin keine…

Experiment-Links
Electrical Fleas Main

Electrical Fleas

Start your own electric flea circus. You’re probably familiar with some of the effects of static electricity: It makes sparks when you comb your hair on a cold…

Hand Battery Main

Hand Battery

Your skin and two different metals create a battery. When you place your hands on metal plates, you and the plates form a battery. The current generated by…

Indicating Electrolysis Main

Indicating Electrolysis

Breaking up (water) isn't hard to do. Break up water into hydrogen and oxygen gas with a simple electrolysis device, and use an acid-base indicator and a…

Shows-Links
Bild Blitzshow

Natural History of a lightning flash

A superlative spectacle! Tension runs high in this fascinating play with voltages and currents causing lightning to flicker and copper wires to evaoprate.

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