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Hello.  I've no idea if any of you folks can help me, but I need to
find someone who can...

I'd like to build a Jacob's Ladder (the electricity toy you so often
see in Frankenstein movies-- the one with two tall parallel poles
between which electricity arcs, and the arcs travel up the poles.)  The
trick is, it's rather a special one.
  I want one roughly the size of a doorway, that a person can walk
through without getting hurt.

  I assume the without-getting-hurt part requires more than just an
ordinary Jacob's Ladder (which would be easy enough to build the size
of a doorway.)  However, I don't know what the added conditions of
construction would be.
The reason I'm posting to news groups is that this is not the kind of
subject you find in scientific journals, but I know people have done
it.  (also, I thought other people might be interested in it, so
whatever I find out I'll gladly share... If nothing else, it'd be a
striking demo for lectures on electricity.)

  If anybody knows anything about it, or knows anyone who knows
anything about it, PLEASE email me.  Thank you.

   ---Jer
(jfaludi@reed.edu)