A Tesla coil is a transformer circuit invented in 1891 by Nikola Tesla.
The coil can create a high voltage high current and high frequency AC electricity.
Tesla tested a number of setups and they consisted of 2 or sometimes 3 coupled resonant electric circuits. Tesla used the coils to conduct inventive tests in lighting, phosphorescence, x-ray generation, high frequency AC phenomena, electrotherapy and even the transmission of electrical energy without wires.
Tesla's experiments required so much electricity that he needed to "borrow" generators from the local electricity company, on at least one occasion he actually blew up a generator. There were also experiments conducting electricity through the air. We would call it wireless today, but even Tesla way back in the late 1800's was way ahead and trying to power things with electric and wirelessly.
Tesla's story is quite tragic in that he seemed at one point to be developing (a tower) his inventiveness into a workable invention, then lost all funding. Ever since, it has left us all wondering still to this day when some of his ideas will become a reality and we are now supposedly more than 100 years more advanced than we were back then!
Tesla was simply a genius and I don't think there has been anyone quite like him ever since he graced the Earth and gifted us with the knowledge he had whilst he was here.
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