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13 - MarinovProm e.and plate A' is charged continuously with positive electricity from e'. Thusif at the initial moment plate A' is slightly positive, then with the rotation itspositive potential steadily increases reaching some "saturated" value (see abovefor the reasons).Tbpler has established that his machine is self-exciting as al<strong>way</strong>s some small potentialdifference appear^ because <strong>of</strong> the friction <strong>of</strong> the brushes when setting themachine in rotation.Similar influence machine as that <strong>of</strong> Topler was constructed in the same year independently<strong>of</strong> him by W. Holtz^ '.Holtz was the first who observed a motor effect in his influence machine <strong>of</strong> secondkind(6).Today the influence machines <strong>of</strong> the kinds constructed by Tbpler and Holtz canbe seen only as museum objects in some <strong>of</strong> the older universities. <strong>The</strong>y are, as arule, broken and stay in some dark room covered with dust as the skeletons <strong>of</strong> dinosaurs.I photographed myself in front <strong>of</strong> such a dinosaur in the Graz university(fig. 2). Of course the machine (<strong>of</strong> the kind <strong>of</strong> Tbpler 's sketched on p. 53 <strong>of</strong> Ref.2) was broken. Perhaps since Boltzmann's time (Boltzmann was a pr<strong>of</strong>essor in the Grazuniversity).