A teenager from Ohio, USA, died from electric shock trying to repeat the scientific experiment that he saw on YouTube. About it reports Reuters
The boy’s parents found him in the garage and called an ambulance. At the hospital, doctors pronounced him dead.
A police spokesman Jared Oliver (Oliver Jared) told ABC News that the experience was not part of their school work. The teenager watched him exclusively on the personal initiative. In the garage police found equipment used for the experiment, called “Jacob’s ladder”. During this experience there is a very high voltage.
On YouTube there are many videos which explain about how to conduct this experiment. It is noted that the warning that the resulting experience of stress can kill a person, is not available in all rollers.
Moreover, the equipment for the experiment (detail from a microwave oven and some wires) can be easy to get even a teenager.
“Jacob’s ladder” is a spectacular physical experiment. In this experiment, an electric arc is lit between the two straight electrodes rises due to the fact that the hot gas, it is lighter than air. After reaching the top she goes out and is ignited at the base of the new arc. “Stairway” this experiment is called, in particular, due to the fact that when photographing the experience with sufficient exposure in the picture appears several “steps”.
