This class was quite the electric shock. We had a guest speaker come into class today, Thomas Vales to talk to us about electricity.
Thomas Vales is the Laboratory Coordinator for the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Suffolk University. He has been involved in technology science and electricity for over 30 years working at Macpherson in Acton and Omni Spectrum in Waltham along with many more mechanic shops throughout his years. According to Vales he is never “un-busy.”
He set up three demonstrations, the sterling engine (on the left) creates energy by being based over heated water. The medicino motor (on the right) is a solar device and has a continuous pull from the magnets on the baseboard. The peltier junction (middle) is a wind device that is powered by having one metal plate in hot water and the other in cold water, when the hot water beings to cool down the speed of the windmill also slows down.
This last one was the most exciting thing we had done in class so far. This machine is known as Tesla coil and is a big electricity conductor.
