Diagram by US inventor Nikola Tesla explaining how his proposed revolutionary worldwide wireless power system would work, from a 1919 article in Hugo Gernsback's electrical magazine. Tesla was obsessed with t More
Collection of Tesla coils in 1919 built by the inventor, Serbian-American engineer Nikola Tesla. They consist of an induction coil or transformer, an interrupter to repeatedly interrupt the primary current, a More
Glow lamps, similar to neon lights, invented by Nikola Tesla and powered by one of his compact Tesla coils. The lamps, consisting of partially evacuated glass tubes with electrodes at either end, are similar More
Small Tesla coil a resonant transformer circuit invented in 1891 by Nikola Tesla which produces high voltage, high frequency electricity. Owned by William Thompson, Lord Kelvin, who did some of the first math More
Drawing from the March 1, 1919 ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER explaining how Nikola Tesla's electric motor demonstration at the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition, called the "Egg of Columbus", worked.