Hace unas décadas, durante mi infancia, apenas y se conocÃa el nombre de Nikola Tesla. Era un genio olvidado por la historia al que poco se le reconocÃan sus méritos. Sus descubrimientos habÃan sido ocultados u opacados por los de algún contemporáneo, como Thomas Alva Edison. Sin embargo, con el tiempo se hizo justicia. Ya a finales del siglo pasado, su nombre…
A+E Network-owned History channel has greenlit a new docuseries on the life, death and work of famed scientist Nikola Tesla. The Prometheus Entertainment-produced untitled (6×60) project will explore Tesla’s life and work through new access to files, locations and experts. The inventor died alone January 8, 1943, in his New York hotel room. Although reports say…
Narrator: In 1891, a Serbian scientist demonstrated his latest inventions before an awestruck audience at Columbia University. Tubes… held in the hand of Mr. Tesla,a reporter wrote, appeared like a luminous sword in the hand of an archangel representing justice. Nikola Tesla was already famous – the scientist whose experiments with electricity were destined…
A Tesla coil is an air cored resonanttransformer. It works by matching all the components in the system so that they resonate at the same (or harmonic) frequency. The end result is that thevoltage input is stepped up by a tremendous amount. Tesla Coils can come in many forms. These two examples are ones we have made for the DIY Devices section. The image in the…
