Hiraga Gennai (1729-79) was an Edo period Japanese pharmacologist, physician, author, painter, and inventor of the Erekiteru (electrostatic generator). The Gennai Hiraga’s Spark Generator kit in the Maker Shed replicates his early work in creating static charges.
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