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| name = Bert Hickman<br />
| fields = High-voltage engineering<br />
| workplaces = Stoneridge Engineering<br />
| nationality = American<br />
| known_for = Lichtenberg figures ("captured lightning") in acrylic; Tesla coils; shrunken coins<br />
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'''Bert Hickman''' is an American retired electrical engineer known for his high-voltage experimentation and for producing Lichtenberg figures, which he markets as "captured lightning" sculptures. He is listed in ''[[The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]]''.<br />
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==Work==<br />
Hickman runs Stoneridge Engineering, an Illinois-based operation, and maintains the "Captured Lightning" (formerly TeslaMania) website. He is best known for creating three-dimensional Lichtenberg figures by injecting high-energy electrons into blocks of clear acrylic using a high-power electron-beam accelerator (a Dynamitron), producing branching, tree-like electrical discharge patterns frozen inside the solid polymer. His work has been featured in popular-science and art writing, including ''Cabinet'' magazine.<br />
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His site also documents Tesla coils and other high-voltage apparatus, a "Nikola Tesla Information Center," and "quarter shrinking," in which strong pulsed magnetic fields compress coins; the shrunken-coin work was covered in ''Coin World'' magazine. Alongside the technical material, the site emphasizes the extreme hazards of high-voltage work and warns against attempting the experiments at home.<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://capturedlightning.com/ Captured Lightning / Stoneridge Engineering]<br />
* [http://capturedlightning.com/frames/about.html About Bert Hickman]<br />
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