Kelvin water dropper

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Invention

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

The Kelvin water dropper, invented by Scottish scientist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) in 1867, is a type of electrostatic generator. Kelvin referred to the device as his water-dropping condenser.

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