Whoa, Ray, don't get too close. That's a Vandigraph generator.

It looks like something right out of an old Frankenstein movie.

Yeah, it does. So the Vandigraph generator has been around since 1929.

A belt generates an electrical charge inside that column, and then it can shoot a spark.

Ah, it looks so cool.

It looks wicked cool, no question.

So did we come to this small town of Orford, New Hampshire, looking for old lab equipment?

No, we came to Orford searching for a woman who was once written up in the American Journal of Science

because she couldn't stop shooting electricity from her body.

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