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Influence Machine
A device developed by English physicist Francis Hauksbee (1706) which is considered to be the first static electric or frictional electric machine.
It was a mercury-filled glass globe mounted on an axle; and when it was spun around, it would create a mysterious "luminosity" that crackled like lightning when it was touched and attracted metal particles.
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fluct-, flucti-, -flux, flu-, flum-, -fluent, -fluence
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