What is Jacobs Ladder?

Answer 1

It is a ladder to heaven. People who are dying sometimes make the movements of climbing a ladder. Soon after, they are gone. I am a nurse, and have seen it many times in adults.

Answer 2

A Jacob's ladder is a special arc device with a "V"-shaped electrode arrangement. The gap is smallest at the bottom and becomes larger towards the top end of the "V". When high voltage is applied, an arc forms at the bottom (where the gap is smallest). This arc is then carried upwards by the buoyancy forces of the hot plasma, forcing it to become longer and longer as the electrode distance becomes larger, until it reaches the end and/or quenches because the gap becomes too large. However, as soon as the arc is quenched, a new one will form at the bottom, and the process starts again

Answer 3

The Jacobs Ladder is a very simple device operating from a high voltage power supply. Two metal electrodes are arranged vertically so that there is small gap between them at the bottom, increasing to a wide gap at the top. During operation, an arc forms between the electrodes at the bottom and moves upwards between the electrodes. On reaching the top of the electrodes the arc extinguishes, and then the cycle repeats, over and over.

Or a plant

Answer 4

There's a path from Regent Street on Calton Hill in Edinburgh down to Calton Road that's called Jacob's Ladder.

Answer 5

Its a ladder that belongs to Jacob! lol

Answer 6

there are several things called a jacobs ladder. one is a rope ladder lowered to the ground. one is one of those scientific things u see in old frankenstien moveis where the electricity spark jumps accross it and the other is a movie from the 1980s lol

Answer 7

I believe its a movie. here's a synopsis

On 06 Oct 1971, in Vietnam, the American soldier Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is wounded by a bayonet during an attack to his platoon. He wakes up in New York subway while going home late night after working overtime in the post office. He is divorced from Sarah (Patricia Kalember), lives with his colleague and lover Jezebel (Elizabeth Peña) is a small apartment in Brooklyn and misses his young son Gabe (Macaulay Culkin), who died in an accident where Jacob feels responsible for. Along the next days, Jacob is chased by demons and finds conspiracy in the army, while having different visions with different moments of his life

Answer 8

Could be a reference to the story of Jacob in the bible.
Or a film.
Or a toy.
Or a variety of other things (listed in Wikipedia).

Check out the links below and see which one you like best!

Answer 9

Don't read any further - there is a great film which will explain things exactly.

If you read any answers, you will really mess up the great film 'Jacobs ladder' for good.

Answer 10

As this is listed in history -

Jacob's Ladder refers to a ladder to heaven described in the Book of Genesis (28:11-19) which the biblical patriarch Jacob envisioned during his flight from his brother Esau:

Jacob left Beersheba, and went toward Haran. And he came to the place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! And behold, the LORD stood above it [or "beside him"] and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your descendants; and your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and by you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done that of which I have spoken to you." Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is in this place; and I did not know it." And he was afraid, and said, "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."

The classic Jewish commentaries offer several interpretations of Jacob's ladder:

According to the Midrash, the ladder signified the exiles which the Jewish people would suffer before the coming of the Messiah. First the angel representing the 70-year exile of Babylonia climbed "up" 70 rungs, and then fell "down." Then the angel representing the exile of Persia went up a number of steps, and fell, as did the angel representing the exile of Greece. Only the fourth angel, which represented the final exile of Rome/Edom (whose guardian angel was Esau himself) kept climbing higher and higher into the clouds. Jacob feared that his children would never be free of Esau's domination, but God assured him that at the End of Days, Edom too would come falling down.
Another interpretation of the ladder keys into the fact that the angels first "ascended" and then "descended." Since angels originate in Heaven, the text should have described them as descending first. The Midrash explains that Jacob, as a holy man, was always accompanied by angels. When he reached the border of the land of Canaan (the future land of Israel), the angels who were assigned to the Holy Land went back up to Heaven and the angels assigned to other lands came down to meet Jacob. When Jacob returned to Canaan (Genesis 32:2-3), he was greeted by the angels who were assigned to the Holy Land.
The place at which Jacob stopped for the night was in reality Mount Moriah, the future home of the Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple). The ladder therefore signifies the "bridge" between Heaven and earth, as prayers and sacrifices offered in the Holy Temple soldered a connection between God and the Jewish people. Moreover, the ladder alludes to the Giving of the Torah as another connection between Heaven and earth. The Hebrew word for ladder, sulam - סולם - and the name for the mountain on which the Torah was given, Sinai - סיני - have the same gematria (numerical value of the letters).