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amiepsychique · 6 months

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A small art project over the past 2 weeks while recovering from COVID :') I nicknamed it coveel 1-9. I'm on week 3 of recovery and still struggling with fatigue but so glad it's getting a bit better each day!

#electric eel #electricity #numbers #counting #tesla coil #lightbulb

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drnikolatesla · 4 months

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The Evolution of the Tesla Coil

Nikola Tesla invented the Tesla coil as part of his exploration into lighting, wireless power transmission, and radiofrequency experiments. He developed the coil to produce high-voltage, low current, high-frequency electricity. The Tesla coil consists of primary and secondary coils that are inductively coupled, and the circuit is designed to resonate at a specific frequency. This resonance enhances the efficiency of energy transfer between the coils, enabling the generation of high-voltage, high-frequency alternating current.

His first Tesla coil was a bipolar coil created around 1891, and was demonstrated before scientific institutes from 1891-1893. His patents reveal that they were essentially intended for light production using both high frequency and high voltage at the same time. He also mentions in his patents how he discovered that a single wire could be used to light a light bulb. Generally, light bulbs require two wires to operate – one for the positive (live or hot) and one for the negative (neutral). He also discarded wires completely lighting bulbs wirelessly. Tesla improved upon the bipolar coil over many years using them for gas engine ignition, wireless, ozone production, and to create undamped waves.

In 1893, Tesla developed the bifilar spiral coil, which is a type of coil wound with two parallel wires, known as bifilar winding. The wires are wound side by side in a spiral pattern, maintaining close proximity throughout the coil. It was built in an attempt to avoid the employment of condensers, which are expensive and difficult to maintain. The coils themselves were meant to accomplish the same ultimate object as the condensers.

In 1894, Tesla evolved his coil into a conical coil. A conical coil refers to a coil or winding in the shape of a cone. These coils were sometimes employed in his wireless power transmission experiments and other electrical investigations. The shape of the coil can influence its inductance, capacitance, and resonance properties, impacting its performance in different applications. This coil allowed Tesla to reach tensions of 1 million volts.

In 1897, Tesla developed the flat spiral coil, similar to his bifilar coil. This type of coil forms a flat, spiral pattern. The specific shape and dimensions of the coil can influence its inductance and other electrical properties. The main reason Tesla started using flat spiral coils was because they were relatively safe, since the highest potential terminal is at the center, and also because they better suppressed the sparks, which were essentially losses in the circuit, allowing him to achieve higher voltages:

Another version of his coils was his Helical coil. A helical coil is a coil wound in the shape of a helix or spiral. The helical coil configuration is characterized by the wires being wound around a cylindrical form in a continuous spiral pattern. Tesla utilized helical coils throughout the late 1890s and in his Colorado Springs Experiments. The coils were used in his wireless transmission experiments, and he employed helical resonators to investigate the behavior of electromagnetic waves. The helical shape offers specific electrical properties and can influence the resonance and performance of the coil in certain applications.

Finally, the Tesla coil would eventually evolve into his Magnifying Transmitter. Tesla designed it as part of his wireless power transmission experiments. The magnifying transmitter was intended to efficiently transmit electrical energy over long distances without the need for wires. The system involved a large coil, often called the magnifying transmitter coil, which could produce high-frequency, high-voltage electrical currents. Tesla believed that this technology could revolutionize global communication and provide a means for delivering electrical power wirelessly by using the earth itself as a conductor.

The magnifying transmitter would become his Wardenclyffe Tower. Unfortunately, Tesla ended up lacking the investments and funds to finish his work in its entirety. Some say he failed because his idea didn’t work, but that’s not true at all because his Colorado experiments proved that they did. In his head, the transmission of energy was a matter of engineering. If he had a machine that could send energy 20 miles, then he could build a machine that could send energy a thousand miles. As long as he understands the motive power, he could build a machine that will do all that he requires of it. He simply underestimated the cost of his system. His failures to finish his work would leave him with the public persona as being the mad scientist who had unrealistic ideas for the future.

Ultimately, Tesla would not realize his dream of providing humankind with cheap, unlimited energy in his lifetime; however, his legacy forever lives on through the incredibly impactful experiments, and the evolution of the Tesla Coil.

“Technical invention is akin to architecture and the experts must in time come to the same conclusions I have reached long ago. Sooner or later my power system will have to be adopted in its entirety and so far as I am concerned it is as good as done. If I were ever assailed by doubt of ultimate success I would dismiss it by remembering the words of that great philosopher, Lord Kelvin, who after witnessing some of my experiments said to me with tears in his eyes: ‘I am sure you will do it.’”--Nikola Tesla

#nikola tesla #science #history #electricity #invention #wireless #energy #power #Tesla coil #quotes #ahead of his time #ahead of our time

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yesterdays-xkcd · 2 months

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For scientists, this can be the hardest thing about dreams.

Tesla Coil [Explained]

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[Cueball and Black Hat stand near a tesla coil mounted on a table.] Cueball: I finally finished my Tesla Coil!

[The room is dark; the characters appear as faint blue outlines on black background. Cueball turns on the Tesla Coil and it sparks white static electricity.] click Black Hat: Cool, but—

[Lightning shoots out of Black Hat's hands, Cueball appears to be in shock and awe.] Black Hat: Check this out!

[The lights are back on, Cueball's arms are raised in amazement.] Cueball: How did you do that? Black Hat: The world doesn't actually make any sense. Science doesn't work. No one told you because you're so cute when you get into something.

[Black Hat floats up the frame, and Cueball is pointing towards Black Hat.] Black Hat: Still, neat toy. Cueball: Now you're hovering! Black Hat: I guess you're still not getting this.

#xkcd #xkcd 298 #tesla coil #2000s #2007

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mad-scientist-enthusiast · 10 months

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Mad scientists, here is your reminder that RF discharges from Tesla coils are not harmless. Be sure to take great precautions when using your Tesla coils as the RF currents can still electrocute you, and have even been said to 'cook' your insides. Unless, of course, you want your insides to be cooked. In which case, live your truth.

#perhaps consider the unethical experiments you could conduct with them #tesla coils are a mad scientist's playground #mad scientist #mad scientist posting #to the laboratory!#tesla coil #mad science #evil scientist #this is an actual fact i swear

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greenearthsociety · 5 months

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last night did some volunteer work at a local school doing physics demo’s and i must say, the look on the kids faces and how excited they were to learn was amazing. i got a ton of great questions from curious kids and barely any from older students and parents!! that curiosity is why im studying what i study

also we got to make things explode using hydrogen and a tesla coil we built which was sick!!!

#blog #physics #learning #volunteer #punk #tesla coil

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charles-breaks-beakers · 1 year

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if you want less frustration in your life, probably don't try and build Tesla coils in Minecraft because electricity is really hard to build in this game.

is there a way to spawn and lock lightning in one spot? would be 100% better.

#does anyone know a better way to do this #sciencecore #mad science #mad scientist #scientist #tesla coil #science #electricity #physics #sci nonsense #sci fi #minecraft #minecraft build #minecraft java #minecraft building #minecraft build ideas #minecraft building tips #minecraft creative #minecraft creative mode

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helium-stims · 2 years

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Arthur Kingsmen (Mystery Skull Animated) Stimboard

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#fandom stim #stimboard #electricity #robotics #mechanical #tesla coil #wrench #prosthetic #lightbub

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spockvarietyhour · 1 year

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just a room full of tesla coils. oh wait.

maybe they're the ones from there but for the grace of god.

#Stargate Atlantis #Stargate SG1 #SGA #Outcast #There But for the Grace of God #tesla coil #it's not a stargate rewatch rewatch

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drnikolatesla · 2 years

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Nikola Tesla: Father of the Modern Technology

It might not be known to most, but Nikola Tesla is partly responsible for the digital age we all live in today. He is acknowledged as the inventor of the AND logic gate circuit which is a vital part of every computer or smart device used today. For Tesla, it all began in 1891 when he patented his Tesla Coil. His coil could produce voltages into the millions, but the first digital computer semiconductor arrays operated at 3 to 5 volts. In the early evolution of computers, the manufacturers were using the AND function which was first demonstrated using Tesla Coils. In the middle of the 1890s, Tesla was working on a concept which he called “The Art of Individualization.” This was connected to the invention of his remote control apparatus which he later displayed to the public in 1898. This entailed devising certain methods of selectively activating several wireless receivers, which involved multiple transmissions of energy on separate frequencies. This literally translated to the AND logic gate function because each individual frequency had to be tuned to the wireless receivers and to the transmitter in order to respond. After his experiments in Colorado Springs in 1899, Nikola Tesla submitted two patents, one being a “System of Signaling,” and the other being a “Method of Signaling.” These both described the AND gate circuit, and since Tesla proposed a security system based on two channels, it confirmed Tesla as a forerunner of the principle of modern computers, and one of the true fathers of the modern technology we all use today!

#nikola tesla #science #history #technology #computers #smart phone #modern technology #wireless #internet #Tesla coil #ahead of his time #ahead of our time

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dropofvioletdew · 10 months

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Luigi’s Light Show (A fan-fiction)

Description: Luigi does a light show with his thunderhand powers for Mario, Toad, Princess Peach, and Donkey Kong based on Boney M.'s Rasputin song in Princess Peach’s courtyard.

Rated pg13 for some dark lyrics.

The section here are links to the videos which had inspired this story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Assa__Snvmw -RASPUTIN Meets TESLA COILS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Oag4hISgU - Boney M - Rasputin (Lyrics)

This is the lyric video I had used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8vIWI7GkqA - Boney M - Rasputin (Dance Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNC6aTSKiwk - Bad Apple !! - Tesla coil + LaserShow

(It’s a Bad Apple song not Rasputin but it’s still pretty cool light show that helped the story but bright lights warning before clicking the link.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJNPmft9Hc0 - The Sound Of Music(1965) - "The Lonely Goatherd" Puppet Show Scene

(This last video isn't Rasputin either but the concept of the main characters doing a show for the audience in The Sound of Music scene gave me an idea for Luigi's thunder-light show too.)

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"Hey guys!" Called out the green plumber to Mario, Princess Peach, Toad, and Donkey Kong, "Come over here to the courtyard, I want to show you all something!"

The four followed Luigi outside in the courtyard of Princess Peach’s castle at night..

“Mario, can you hold my hat for me please?” asked Luigi.

The red plumber had held his brother’s cap.

“What’s this about Luigi?” asked Toad.

“Yeah, why are we out in the courtyard in the middle of the night?” asked Donkey Kong as he yawned.

"What do you want to show us?" asked Princess Peach with interest, wondering why her friend was so excited.

They gathered on a bench together to observe Luigi.

“After lots of practice out here I have learned how to use my thunderhand to create music like a Tesla coil and even charge my own electricity to make my own light show just for you guys."

Luigi made two finger guns with his hands.

"Bang bang!" He said.

The green plumber had shown his surprised companions the colorful lighting that was coming from his fingertips like bullets.

He passed his green phone to Toad.

"Toad will you do the honors by doing a three second countdown and play this song in my playlist for me?"

The little fungus nodded and gave him a thumbs up.

"Okay!" Toad smiled.

Luigi went over to the middle of the courtyard and signaled to Toad that he was ready for the count down.

He was extremely anxious about how they'd react to his performance, but he took a deep breath and braced himself as he began his show for the audience despite his fears.

Toad held up his fingers.

"Three...Two....One..START!"

He pressed play on the song "Rasputin" by Boney M.

“Hey, hey, hey!" Luigi chanted as he zapped from his finger guns to the beat of the song.

The shoes he tapped from his feet as he shuffled and danced had glowed an electric blue with both speed and grace.

He created a rectangular picture frame with the palms of his electric hands to create a mini cyan colored movie screen for the viewers to watch.

Then Luigi used his thunderhand to create a marionette human figure and made the strings of the puppet move along to the melody with the electricity from his fingers who is the main character of the song:

Luigi bobbed his head as he narrated the lyrics.

“There lived a certain man in Russia long ago-”

The green plumber had animated this small electric man puppet to life.

This precise movement from his main working hand had reminded Mario, Peach, Toad, and Donkey Kong of Master Hand.

“He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow!”

Luigi had moved his muscles like Donkey Kong does and changed the color of the blue eyes to scarlet while he moved his puppet on beat to the music.

The green plumber made more human electric figures who were frightened of the main character with strings of the fingers from his other thunder hand.

This other wildly moving hand also reminded his companions of Crazy Hand.

“Most people looked at him with terror and with fear!”

He illustrated with his facial expression that had reflected on the lit up puppets of how very scared they were of Rasputin.

Luigi smiled as he drew the lady puppet figures with hearts flowing out from them who had admired and leaned against the rapscallion.

“But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear!”

Luigi had changed the lightning shape of Rasputin’s outfit to that of a suited pastor who held a book in his hand as he stood before a congregation in a Russian church.

“He could preach the Bible like a preacher, full of ecstasy and fire!”

The green plumber changed Rasputin's preacher clothes into that of a university professor and gave him a pair of glasses to wear.

“But he was also was the kind of teacher, women would desire!”

Rasputin was animated by Luigi to be chased by the lady puppets whose hearts trailed behind them.

"Ra ra Rasputin!"

He drew the Rasputin puppet giving a marionette lady of royalty a bouquet of flowers on the movie screen.

"Lover of the Russian Queen!"

Luigi morphed his puppet into a stray electric feline who marched in step confidently across the palace's gate.

"There was a cat that really was gone."

Luigi then had the feline transformed into a robot that shoots out hearts from his laser eyes.

"Ra ra Rasputin-"

He thunder clapped twice.

"Russia's greatest love machine."

The thunder clapped two times again on the beat of the song.

"It was a shame how he carried on."

Luigi built an electric violin with his thunder powers and played his instrument on tune with the background music.

"But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger for power-"

He then turned the violin into an accurate map of Russia with many tiny humans populating the area before them.

"Became known to more and more people, the demands to do something about this outrageous man-"

Luigi drew the little people, exclaiming as one group that they were against Rasputin.

"Became louder and louder!"

“Hey, Hey, Hey!” Luigi said as he used his finger guns to zap on beat with the song as the baseline instrumentals.

He shuffle danced with his electricity sparkling on his heels..

Luigi used his "Master Hand" to control Rasputin's foes, who all have pitchforks and pistols ready to kill Rasputin.

" "This man's just got to go!", declared his enemies "

He took out his "Crazy Hand" to move the crying marionette women who had blocked their path.

"But the ladies begged, "don't you try to do it, please!" "

Rasputin was drawn to flirting with the ladies, but the jealous men nearby had glared at him.

"No doubt this Rasputin had lots of hidden charms, though he was a brute, they just fell into his arms!"

Luigi had drawn the little guys scheming together under the full moon.

"Then one night some men of higher standing set a trap, they're not to blame..."

He had them write a letter as an invitation to Rasputin at their place.

"Come to visit us", as they kept demanding."

The Rasputin puppet read the letter and agreed to visit.

The green plumber had created a horse drawn carriage Rasputin had rode on to move across the courtyard to a model of an electric castle he had built and the main puppet came inside it.

"And he really came."

Luigi does a Michael Jackson's moonwalk to slide across the courtyard as he controls Rasputin's transportation as if he's ice skating with the lighting on the ground.

"Ra ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen."

Luigi used the strings of the electricity as he pulled himself back to the center of the field.

Then he molded a rotating 3d hologram model of a glass cup with sparkling liquid poured into it.

"They put some poison into his wine!"

He made the wine glass dissolve into his hands.

"Ra ra Rasputin!"

Luigi thunderclapped twice.

"Russia's greatest love machine!"

The green plumber clapped two times again.

He drew a scene as if Mario, Toad, Donkey Kong, and Princess Peach saw a suspenseful film when Rasputin's foes watched their enemy with anticipation as he drank the wine at their dinner table but were shocked that he was still standing after drinking their concoction.

"He drank it all and said, "I feel fine" "

The green jumped on beat with the music.

"Ra ra Rasputin!"

Luigi made his finger guns shoot twice.

"Ra ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian Queen."

He made two more shots.

"They didn't quit, they wanted his head!"

The angry little people shared a skull symbol together as a thought bubble in their heads.

"Ra ra Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine, and so they shot him 'til he was dead!"

Finally he did a ballerina spin with even more sparks zapping from his hands and feet as he spun in a circle.

Static electricity had buzzed from his brown hair and had stood on end as he bowed to signify the end of the light show.

"Oh those Russians..." Luigi stated in a surprisingly deep tone.