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It's a high-voltage apparatus that has earned a place in history. Now it's your turn to get in on the fun! "Wimshurst machine? So that's what it's called!" my neighbor said, his eyes as wide as half...

Have hours of high-voltage fun when you experiment with this working high-voltage generator. The first known electrical generator was built in 1660 by the German experimenter, Otto von Guericke (also...

Build an updated version of Nikola Tesla's most-famous experiment. Nikola Tesla is considered by some to be the greatest inventor of our modern electrical age, and many experts consider him to be the...

Our solid-state Tesla coil can produce sparks as long as 8 inches with a peak output of about 100,000 volts. Tesla coils have been around for almost 100 years and, with the exception of vacuum-tube...

In addition to his many important contributions to electronics technology, Nikola Tesla gave us "lightning generators" that to this day fascinate and entertain. Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a...

A universal power source for an Eye-of-the-Storm-like display, and other unusual plasma and neon lighting devices. You no longer need to go to a local discotheque to see the latest in unusual lighting...

In the mind of the electrical genuis it's named for, it was a practical transmitter - but our version is strictly for thrills. Spectacular fireworks include a ring of fire scribed by wire pivoting on...

Miniature in size only, this physics classroom project packs 60,000 volts of power at 500,000 cycles per second. Yet it's safe! You can make spectacular demonstrations with this Tesla coil (Fig. 1)...

One of the great "lost" engines, Tesla's long-neglected turbine is due for a revival. It's a simple modelmaking project: no pistons, so no close tolerances! And it runs on air or steam We're Haunted...

Many experimenters either do not realize the vastness of the high frequency field, or think that they have not money enough to buy the necessary apparatus. It is the purpose of this article to explain...