A Marx generator is an electrical circuit first described by Erwin Otto Marx in 1924. Its purpose is to generate a high-voltage pulse from a low-voltage...
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ATLAS-I (section EMP generator)
pulse was produced by a pair of Marx generators built by Maxwell Laboratories of San Diego, California. The generators were mounted on pedestals constructed...
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surge generator of cascaded connection. (The Cascade connection was another important invention of Ányos Jedlik.) One form is the Marx generator, named...
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Erwin Otto Marx (1893–1980) was a German electrical engineer who invented the Marx generator, a device for producing high voltage electrical pulses. He...
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is notable for containing what is believed to be the world's largest Marx generator, which was originally created to help test lightning insulation in military...
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evident to Soviet scientists conducting nuclear fusion research. The Marx generator, which stores energy in capacitors, was the only device capable at the...
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semicircular corona rings attached to each end of the diode rectifier tubes. Marx generator Voltage multiplier Bidin, Noriah (January 2010). "High voltage Switch...
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from the Kirby series of video games Marx generator, an electrical circuit which produces high-voltage pulses St. Marx cemetery, Landstraße, Vienna This...
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Nearly all of these large EMP simulators used a specialized version of a Marx generator. Examples include the huge wooden-structured ATLAS-I simulator (also...
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power stroke. Spark gaps are also used to switch heavy currents in a Marx generator and to protect electrical apparatus. In electric discharge machining...
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