To investigate the electrical realm of high-frequency and high-voltage, Tesla invented an apparatus that pushed the limits of electrical understanding. None of the circuit's typical components were ...

As a general rule, no one knows when or where lightning will strike. But on Saturday night, it will strike on the grounds of the Clinton Presidential Center. And everyone is invited to watch.

Picture a reclusive man, dripping sweat all night in a dark lab, illuminated only by crackling sparks that leap from enormous machines and cast a purple glow across his face. This is Nikola Tesla, the ...

So much for the art-science split. Angeleno Syd Klinge, 39, has always been an inveterate tinkerer. By the time he was 6, his father, an engineering professor, had entrusted him with the task of ...

Using a powerful electric force emitted by a Tesla coil, scientists at Rice University have made carbon nanotubes self-assemble to form a circuit linking two LEDs and then used the energy from that ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Among his numerous innovations, Nikola Tesla dreamed of creating a way to supply power to the ...

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