Keywords: Kelvin water dropper-original 1867 drawing.png William Thomson Lord Kelvin of his water-powered electrostatic generator now called the Kelvin water dropper This drawing appears in his original 1867 paper This original version used funnels at the bottom of the water drops' path to collect the charge on the drops while letting the water fall through and Leyden jars large cylinders to store the charge instead of the pails which are often used in modern versions 1867-11 Retrieved September 2 2015 from https //books google com/books id 2lgwAAAAIAAJ pg PA393 William Thomson June 20 1867 On a self-acting apparatus for multiplying and maintaining electric charges with applications to the Voltaic Theory in The London Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine Taylor and Francis London 4th Series Vol 34 No 231 November 1867 p 393 fig 2 on Google Books William Thomson Lord Kelvin other versions PD-old-70-1923 Uploaded with UploadWizard Kelvin water dropper Electrostatic generators |