Nikola Tesla built a machine that could fire bolts of electricity through the air. His Tesla Coil became a symbol of wireless power—and raw electrical beauty.

All it took was a mask, and a little treatment with a modified Tesla coil. Plastics tend to be hydrophobic, meaning their surface repels water. These plastics also tend to be non-receptive to ...

Tesla, the original. Nikola Tesla, the famed scientist and inventor. A genius ahead of his time and champion of AC, inventor of the Tesla Coil and lover of pigeons. His name lives on today ...

[Zach Armstrong] presents for your viewing pleasure a simple guide to building a solid-state Tesla coil. The design is based around a self-resonant setup using the UCC2742x gate driver IC ...

The inventor came close to accomplishing this when his "mad scientist" experiments with electricity led to his creation of the Tesla coil. The first system that could wirelessly transmit ...

The ancient Greek god Zeus was said to be able to throw lightning bolts; Nikola Tesla emulated this with his Tesla coil design on a grand scale. But is this device a great invention, a novelty or just ...

The role of J.P. Morgan in getting Tesla's Tower built. The fundamental operation of a Tesla coil. Dealing with EMI generated by a Tesla coil. When I lived in Long Island, N.Y., I had a most ...

Construction of the Eugene Sayan Visitor Center at Tesla Science Center starts in June, marking a significant step in ...

an entertainment engineering company that regularly uses Tesla coils for shows across the world. The electricity was created using a Tesla coil, which sees electrons flow from the coil through the ...

WASHINGTON — When most people rave about seeing an "electrifying" performance, they typically aren't talking about witnessing real lightning on stage. But for the band ArcAttack, harnessing the ...

In fact, in the early decades of radio, most practicable radios utilized Tesla coils in their transmission antennas. Tesla himself used larger or smaller versions of his invention to investigate ...