This weekend is the birthday of Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-born physicist who was the father of modern electricity. He died in 1943. Along with the concept of alternating current, he was famous for ...

The Tesla coil is a resonant transformer that generates AC electric fields that can power fluorescent lights and neon tubes, as well as produce high-voltage arcs. It is essentially structured as a ...

I started organizing my bookmarks last weekend and came across a few nice sites on Tesla coils and big sparks. I like the above link because it is a guy that has taken hobby Tesla experiments to a new ...

Based on a fun demo used at science centers across the country, the Arc Light features a pair of glowing LED tubes that aren’t actually connected to the lamp in any way. Instead, tucked out of sight ...

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc5SFMxTzyI&w=580] [Steve Ward] showed us his Tesla coil project which looks very much like a video game weapon. The hand ...

When you think of things related to science, music may not make the top of your list. But the folks involved with a small collective called ArcAttack would like you to change your associations.

The ancient Greek god Zeus was said to be able to throw lightning bolts; Nikola Tesla emulated this with his Tesla coil design on a grand scale. But is this device a great invention, a novelty or just ...