Electrical ball game

Fix a piece of silver paper cut into the shape of a footballer on to the edge of a phonograph record, rub the record vigorously with a woolen cloth and place it on a dry glass. Put a tin can about two inches in front of the figure. If you hold a small silver-paper ball on a thread between them, it swings repeatedly from the figure to the can and back.

The electric charge on the record flows into the silver-paper figure and attracts the ball, it becomes charged, but is immediately repelled because the charges become equal, and goes to the can, where it loses its electricity. This process is repeated for a time.