The Jacob’s Ladder is an electrical device named after a biblical “ladder to Heaven”, consisting of a pair of vertically oriented conductors that spread apart vertically. These conductors ...

There was a time when making a high voltage project like a Jacob’s ladder took time to build or scrounge some kind of high voltage circuit. The neon sign transformer, Marx generator, or voltage ...

First, Jacob has a vision. He says he saw a “stairway” stretching between heaven and earth, on which angels were ascending and descending. (Some biblical scholars say the old term “ladder ...

Still Brit director Adrian Lyne's best movie (though with a canon including Indecent Proposal and 91/2 Weeks, this is not as hard as you may think), Jacob's Ladder is a mysterious, haunting film.