There was a time when making a high voltage project like a Jacob’s ladder took time to build or scrounge some kind of high voltage circuit. The neon sign transformer, Marx generator, or voltage ...
The sky was threatening rain one recent morning when I went outside to look at the blue flowers in a patch of Jacob’s ladder plants. The scientific name of this ephemeral plant in the phlox family ...
The Jacob’s Ladder is an electrical device named after a biblical “ladder to Heaven”, consisting of a pair of vertically oriented conductors that spread apart vertically. These conductors are charged ...
A wonderful, spring-blooming, native perennial is the creeping Jacob’s ladder, and the ‘Stairway to Heaven’ variety has more interest than the species. ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Jacob’s ladder is a small, ...