Tesla: Master of Lightning
Tesla experiments with high-frequency, high
voltage electricity in Colorado Springs (1890-1900). This is the
electricity of today's radio and broadcasting.
Celebrating 150 years of Nikola Tesla's birth
(1856-1943) Nikola
Tesla Year in 2006
Celebrations are underway in Serbia, Croatia,
Republica Srbska, United States, Australia and others
Above: Tesla holding a gas-filled phosphor coated wireless light bulb
which he developed in the 1890's half a century before fluorescent lamps
come into use.
Above: Experimental station at Colorado Springs where the first
wireless transmission experiments were performed (1899-1900).
Above: Tesla oscillator creating a great electrical movement.
Above: The flame-like discharge measures sixty-five feet across.
Tesla sits in front of the oscillator.
Above: Tesla beside his spiral coil, with Roger Boskovich's book "Theoria
Philosophiae Naturalis", East Houston St. 46, New York, 1901.
Above: Experiments with differently attuned coils, and responding to
the vibration transmitted to them through the earth from an electrical
oscillator.
Above: Symmetrical discharges from additionally tuned Tesla coil, where
discharges are stopped from streaming to the roof of the building. |