The Bakken Museum in South Minneapolis allows people to learn about the awkward and sometimes painful feeling.

In this case, his hand is helping to store the charge. Credit: public domain Though not exactly a machine for generating static electricity, the Leyden jar is a critical part of early ...

Static electricity occurs when an electrostatic charge ... You probably keep a small bottle of hand lotion in your bag anyway ...

which uses electric power produced from static electricity to operate the second hand with an electrostatic motor. The minute and hour hands are moved by a conventional stepper motor used in ...

Static electricity is a build up of electric charge ... A spark between the earthed conductor (left-hand small sphere) and the charged dome of a Van de Graaf generator. Electrons are transferred ...

Electrets produce a semi-permanent static electric field, similar to how a magnet produces a magnetic field. The ones in microphones are very small, but in the video after the break [Jay Bowles ...