Abandoned Soviet Lightning Machine

4 years ago

Russian Electrotechnical Institute Marx Generator:

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Tags: mad science, retrocomputing

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10 Responses:

1. pavel_lishin says:

   4 years ago at 12:44 pm

   The Marx generator, at peak operating power, can create up to 250,000 watts of communism.

   • Andrew says:

     4 years ago at 6:13 pm

     How many Harpo Marx is that?

     • jwz says:

       4 years ago at 6:19 pm

       It's more of a theremin than a harp...

       • Andrew says:

         4 years ago at 6:00 pm

         I guess at those levels it nearly clears one Karl Marx

   • Jon Hendry says:

     4 years ago at 1:42 am

     Real Marxism has never been tried turned on.

2. Jim Sweeney says:

   4 years ago at 1:04 pm

   Do you want super-villains? Because this is how we get super-villains...

3. Jeremy Wilson says:

   4 years ago at 1:26 pm

   And you say you're hard to shop for.

4. Sam says:

   4 years ago at 1:27 pm

   Did you mean lightning machine?

   • Joshuag says:

     4 years ago at 9:39 am

     Well, it is kinda lighting too.

     Dreadfully inefficient, but delightfully excessive.

     • jwz says:

       4 years ago at 9:56 am

       I mean, it's just a neon tube, without the tube, or the neon.