Looking for a neat trick to do with your Tesla coil? [The Action Lab] uses his coil to make a metal plasma — in particular, sodium. You can see the results in the video below. To create a metal ...

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Say “Tesla” and most people think “electric car.” Less commonly, they think of that vehicle’s eponym, Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the ... at science museums that surge with purple bolts of plasma).

the amusing aspects of it. Then it’s on to femto second, laser-induced plasma filaments in air, a mini-Tesla coil with a DC input and the construction of the world’s largest Tesla coil. Nikola Tesla, ...

Nikola Tesla ... whose incandescent lamp, introduced in New York in the late 1870s, created a great demand for electric power. Although Edison was not interested in Tesla’s ideas, he hired ...