The Tesla coil is a resonant transformer that generates AC electric fields that can power fluorescent lights and neon tubes, as well as produce high-voltage arcs. It is essentially structured as a ...

If you have a thing for Tesla coils (and who doesn’t really) you will be interested in this experiment/history lesson about wireless power put on by Omega Recoil at this year’s Maker Faire. During the ...

Nikola Tesla was a visionary thinker, making experiments which still aren't fully understood today. But even the inventor of AC current wouldn't have foreseen this Flash Gordon style wireless plasma ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Named for its inventor, Nikola Tesla, this machine transforms energy into extremely high-voltage ...

An oversized Tesla coil is a movie and a photograph which are blowing out lightning violently. The Tesla coil is also big, so the lightning is also getting thick. If you are doing such experiments in ...

Nikola Tesla would be proud. The Serbian-American inventor, who spent about eight months in Colorado Springs from 1899 to 1900, is infamous for his Tesla coil, a high-frequency, high-voltage ...

Think of a Gatling gun and you may think of your favorite first-person shooter, that scene from Terminator 2 where the T-800 messes up a whole fleet of squad cars, or the American Civil War, which ...