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    A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit designed by inventor Nikola Tesla in 1891. It is used to produce high-voltage, low-current,...
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  • singing Tesla coil, sometimes called a zeusaphone, thoramin or musical lightning, is a form of plasma speaker. It is a variety of a solid state Tesla coil that...
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    Nikola Tesla patented the Tesla coil circuit on April 25, 1891. and first publicly demonstrated it May 20, 1891 in his lecture "Experiments with Alternate...
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    Nikola Tesla (/ˈtɛslə/; Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла, [nǐkola têsla]; 10 July [O.S. 28 June] 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American engineer,...
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    voltage produced by an induction coil. It generates DC using diode switches to charge a ladder of capacitors. Tesla coils utilize resonance, are lightweight...
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    distance. On display at the Observatory is a large Tesla coil, named for its inventor, Nikola Tesla. Dubbed "GPO-1", it is one of a pair which were built...
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    intended targets. Tesla turbine Tesla coil The Complete Patents of Nikola Tesla (book) Šarboh, Snežana (October 18–20, 2006). "Nikola Tesla's Patents" (PDF)...
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    of the 20th century. It is very similar to the Tesla coil, with the difference being that the Oudin coil was connected as an autotransformer. It was invented...
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    Transformer (redirect from Primary coil)
    ('General Electricity Company') in Germany. In 1891, Nikola Tesla invented the Tesla coil, an air-cored, dual-tuned resonant transformer for producing...
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  • Coffee and Cigarettes (category Cultural depictions of Nikola Tesla)
    life, and there are many common threads between vignettes, such as the Tesla coil, medical knowledge, the suggestion that coffee and cigarettes don't make...
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    model boat Tesla coil Tesla's urn Personal items Bust of Tesla Tesla's suit Wax figure of Nikola Tesla in the Museum Demonstrations of Tesla's inventions...
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    wireless transmission of electrical power. The lab possessed the largest Tesla coil ever built, 49.25 feet (15.01 m) in diameter, which was a preliminary...
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    Flyback converter Flyback transformer Low tension coil Magnetic field Oudin coil Saab Direct Ignition Tesla coil Horst Bauer (ed)., Automotive Handbook 4th Edition...
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    Tesla coil. His primary interest in wireless phenomenon was as a power distribution system, early on pursuing wireless lighting. From 1891 on Tesla was...
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    (one million volt) sources for X-ray production.[citation needed] The Tesla coil is a resonant transformer circuit used to generate very high voltages...
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    Shows Meg His Tesla Coil" features Jack White of the band The White Stripes praising Tesla's work and showing his bandmate Meg a Tesla coil he built; Jack...
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  • Field, The Discovery of the Tesla Coil and Transformer, The Magnifying Transmitter, and The Art of Telautomatics. Tesla's autobiography was first published...
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  • 1899 Colorado Springs, he sets up his Tesla coil to harness and to transmit the power of the lightning storms. Tesla meets up with Bernhardt who is touring...
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    Electrical breakdown in an electric discharge showing the ribbon-like plasma filaments from a Tesla coil....
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  • commands it to attack Balthazar. Dave arrives and stuns Horvath with a Tesla coil tied to Balthazar's car while Balthazar's eagle flies away with the bull...
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    inventor's use of a "Tesla coil" "connected to the Earth" led Tesla to believe Marconi was copying his earth resonance system to do it. Tesla, believing a small...
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  • Shankaracharya Technical Campus, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India Solid state Tesla coil, a Tesla coil that uses semiconductors in place of the traditional spark gap...
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    An induction coil or "spark coil" (archaically known as an inductorium or Ruhmkorff coil after Heinrich Rühmkorff) is a type of electrical transformer...
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    exhibits are interactive. It features a record-breaking musical bi-polar tesla coil, and also includes a large live animal collection. Prolific writer and...
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    auditorium, prototypes of some Tesla's inventions (induction motor, Tesla's turbine, rotating magnetic field, Tesla coil), multimedia center etc. Various...
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    Plasma globe (redirect from Tesla ball)
    by a high-frequency, high-voltage transformer, for example a miniature Tesla coil or a flyback transformer. The radio-frequency energy from the transformer...
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    segment "Jack Shows Meg His Tesla Coil", which expands on White Stripes motifs such as childhood innocence and Nikola Tesla. In 2004, White starred in...
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    frequency from a grounded Tesla coil working against an elevated capacitance to make the potential of the Earth oscillate. Tesla thought this would allow...
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    Colorado Springs Notes, 1899–1900 (category Books about Nikola Tesla)
    Tesla Coil Builder's Guide to the Colorado Springs Notes of Nikola Tesla Tesla's Colorado Springs Receivers Wardenclyffe and the World System Tesla Magnifier...
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    inventor Nikola Tesla. Tesla Experimental Station Tesla tower Tesla coil Singing Tesla coil Tesla's oscillator Tesla turbine Tesla valve Tesla's Egg of Columbus...
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