Alternately called “Kelvin water dropper” or “Lord Kelvin’s Thunderstorm”, the machine is able to produce a high voltage charge from falling water without using any moving parts.

It is the Lord Kelvin’s Water Dropper aka Lord Kelvin’s Thunderstorm, invented in the 1860s by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, the same fellow for whom the Kelvin temperature scale is named.

In 1867, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) invented his classic water dropper to demonstrate how charges can be spontaneously created in clouds. But, the device has remained little more than a classroom ...

My poster is a demonstration of the Kelvin Water Dropper, invented by William Thomson in 1867. The goal of my project is to educate all those at IEEE about the basics of electrostatic induction ...

Research Objectives: (1) Researching the operational mechanisms and principles behind the functionality of the Kelvin Water Dropper; (2) Making the complex scientific principles functioning in the ...

It’s called Lord Kelvin’s thunderstorm or, for the less poetic among us, Lord Kelvin’s water dropper. By crosslinking containers and coils, ...

IT is more than forty, years since Lord Kelvin commenced a new era in measurements of atmospheric electric potential by devising the water-dropper. Though marking a great advance, and simple in ...