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== History ==
One of the first documented cases of using electricity to melt a metal occurred in the late 1700s <ref>{{cite book|last1=Dibner|first1=[by] Herbert W. Meyer. Foreword by Bern|title=A history of electricity and magnetism|date=1972|publisher=Burndy Library|___location=Norwalk, Conn.|isbn=026213070X|page=32|url=https://archive.org/details/AHistoryof_00_Meye|url-access=registration}}</ref> and is credited to [[Martin van Marum]] who melted 70 feet of metal wire with 64 [[Leyden Jars]] as a capacitor. Van Marum's generator was built in 1784, and is now located in the [[Teylers Museum]] in the Netherlands. Years later, [[Benjamin Franklin]] vaporized thin gold leaf to burn images onto paper.<ref name=Precon>{{cite journal|last1=Holcombe|first1=J.A.|last2=Sacks|first2=R.D.|title=Exploding wire excitation for trace analysis of Hg, Cd, Pb and Ni using electrodeposition for preconcentration|journal=Spectrochimica Acta|date=March 16, 1973|volume=22B|issue=12|pages=451–467|doi=10.1016/0584-8547(73)80051-5|bibcode=1973AcSpe..28..451H|hdl=2027.42/33764|url=http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/33764/0000016.pdf?sequence=1|access-date=2 November 2014|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref name="wireresearch">{{cite journal|last1=McGrath|first1=J.R.|title=Exploding Wire Research 1774–1963|journal=NRL Memorandum Report|date=May 1966|pages=17|url=http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD0633623|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129061758/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD0633623|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 29, 2014|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref> While neither Marum nor Franklin actually incited the exploding wire phenomenon, they were both important steps towards its discovery.
[[Edward Nairne]] was the first to note the existence of the exploding wire method in 1774 with silver and copper wire. Subsequently, [[Michael Faraday]] used EWM to deposit thin gold films through the solidification of vaporized metal on adjacent surfaces. Then, vapor deposits of metal gas as a result of EWM were studied by [[August Toepler]] during the 1800s. [[Spectrography]] investigation of the process, led by J.A. Anderson, became widespread in the 1900s. The spectrography experiments enabled a better understanding and subsequently the first glimpses of practical application. The mid 20th century saw experiments with EWM as a light source and for the production of nanoparticles in aluminum, uranium and plutonium wires. Congruently, [[Luis Walter Alvarez|Luis Álvarez]] and [[Lawrence H. Johnston]] of the [[Manhattan Project]] found use for EWM in the development of nuclear detonators.<ref name="wireresearch"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Hansen|first1=Stephen|title=Exploding Wires Principles, Apparatus and Experiments|date=2011|publisher=Bell Jar|url=http://www.belljar.net/Exploding_Wires.pdf|access-date=24 October 2014}}</ref>
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