needs to light off fireworks with an arc rather ... but nowhere near the 15 kilovolts needed for a self-sustaining arc across electrodes placed 5 mm apart. A little math told him that he could ...

One doesn’t have to watch too many movies set in the Victorian/Edwardian period to think that most streets circa 1880-1900 ...

If you aren’t a smoker, an arc lighter uses a high voltage spark to ... A metal base serves as the other electrode and a heat sink. For the plasma pen, two brass electrodes form the spark ...

And behold, the world of rechargeable, electric arc lighters revealed itself to me. Rechargeable candle lighters are preferable to traditional lighters and matches for a few reasons. They're more ...