These Science Experiments Would Be Banned Nowadays (1966)

Professor Julius Sumner Miller tackles a 4 interesting experiments in electrostatics on the ABC's classic science program 'Why It Is So?' in 1966. Stream more documentaries now on ABC iview: https://ab.co/ABCScienceDocos Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:15 Experiment #1 4:05 Where Did The Smoke Go? 5:15 The Wimshurst Machine 6:42 Experiment #2 7:34 Ozone Explained 8:37 Experiment #3 11:05 Professor Miller Responds to Mail 12:20 The Leyden Jar 13:44 Experiment #4 15:46 Disassembling the Jar 17:15 The History of the Leyden Jar 18:53 The Professor's Sand Dollar 21:22 Outro These three episodes of Why It Is So? were first broadcast in 1966 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Subscribe: https://ab.co/2YFO4Go Like: https://www.facebook.com/ABCScience Follow: https://www.instagram.com/ABCHealth --------------------------------------------------------------- This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube channel. Please see the ABC Online Terms of Use for the reasons why we may remove content from this page, or ban people: http://about.abc.net.au/terms-of-use/