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 ...

Tesla experimented with fluorescent and incandescent lighting and even high-frequency arc lighting ... at a technique guiding the high voltage arcs of the Tesla coil by using laser-induced plasma ...

Everyone knows that one of the coolest things to do with a Tesla coil is to light up neon or fluorescent tubes at a distance. It’s an easy and very visual way to conceptualize how much energy is ...

They involved using what he dubbed a Tesla coil (something like those glass spheres you see at science museums that surge with purple bolts of plasma). In 1893 ... electricity out of his fingers. He ...

Since the 19th century, devices like the Tesla coil, which produces high-voltage, alternating-current electricity, have replicated its effects. But in the early 1990s, Gibbs began a quest to forge ...

This Lego Technic MOC includes the primary coil, secondary coil, spark gap, and switch, all built with Lego. Powered by just 6 volts, the output is surprisingly powerful, with plasma arcs reaching ...