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Introducing sliding scale to work, what makes sparks fly?
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tesla coil
Word definitions for tesla coil in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891. It is used to produce high- voltage , low- current , high frequency alternating-current electricity. Tesla experimented with a number of different configurations ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tesla coil \Tes"la coil\, Tesla transformer \Tes"la trans*form"er\ [After N. Tesla, American electrician.] (Elec.) A transformer without iron, for high frequency alternating or oscillating currents; an oscillation transformer.
Usage examples of tesla coil.
He made sure he was out of the field effect of the miniature microwave oscillator, what Berrier had described as an updated, state-of-the-art Tesla Coil.
I was the man who had invented the special effects prop for the second Frankenstein film, the Tesla coil.
Back in Victorian times a scientific genius by the name of Nicoli Tesla invented a number of remarkable things: alternating current, the Tesla coil, for which he is still remembered today, and wireless communications.
Tumbling out of control, its spine broken, the condor dropped directly onto the Tesla coil.
Brim found himself once more in control, regulating output from the Tesla coil by use of the ship's speed regulators instead of the poorly adjusted plasma choke.
He threw another switch and bolts of lightning coruscated deep inside the machine and the tesla coil snapped out loud sparks.
He had brought a large Tesla coil into the bedroom from the lab and succeeded in inducing sufficient voltage in the bedsprings to make very effective, though harmless, sparks.
The word approximately crackles and explodes from his mouth like a spark from a Tesla coil.
The pulse of energy ripped through her body like sparks through a Tesla coil until it reached her brain and exploded with white-hot intensity.
I guess I was expecting them to be doing Tesla Coil experiments or building jets out of Mylar.
One electrode was safely grounded, the other connected to a Tesla coil.
Her hair whipped in the wind, jumping in crazy arcs like a Tesla coil.