This week he’s showing us how he made a large electrostatic motor, also known as a Corona Motor. A Corona motor makes use of a cool phenomenon called the Corona discharge, which is the ...

[via MSN/WSJ] While the first real application of an electric motor was Ben Franklin’s electrostatically-driven turkey rotisserie, electromagnetic type motors largely supplanted the technology ...

Efferent refers to messages sent from the brain to the body to control motor function. The corona radiata consists of afferent and efferent fibers that connect the cerebral cortex and the brain stem.