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here's a fun little project that can make big, fat, noisy sparks at least inches long, and can be built very quickly and cheaply. the marx generator consists of an array of resistors, capacitors and spark gaps arranged as follows: the capacitors, c, are charged up in parallel via the m (one megohm) resistors
to the input voltage. when first (leftmost) spark gaps breaks down (sparks), the voltage across the next increases, causing it to break down, and so on for all the other gaps. when all gaps have broken down, the low impedance of the ionised air in the sparks effectively connects all the charged capacitors...
http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/marxgen.htm