In 1891, Nikola Tesla built a machine that could fire bolts of electricity through the air. His Tesla Coil became a symbol of wireless power—and raw electrical beauty.

Oh, and 15 years ago, he built a small Tesla coil. Tesla is scientific live wire Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), the wildly creative Croatian inventor responsible for radio transmission technology and ...

This weekend is the birthday of Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-born physicist who was the father of modern electricity. He died in 1943. Along with the concept of alternating current, he was famous for ...

Nikola Tesla created the Tesla coil, which allows wireless transfer of electricity. Here's how the Tesla coil works.

Named for its inventor, Nikola Tesla, this machine transforms energy into extremely high-voltage charges, creating powerful electrical fields capable of producing spectacular electrical arcs ...

— The Tesla Coil — To investigate the electrical realm of high-frequency and high-voltage, Tesla invented an apparatus that pushed the limits of electrical understanding.

Homemade Tesla Coil Plasma Gun Nikola Tesla was a visionary thinker, carrying out experiments which still aren't fully understood today.

The Tesla coil does more than just add drama to sci-fi movies. Tesla used it to conduct experiments on energy transfer between objects, and these demonstrations wowed his contemporaries.

Tesla, the original. Nikola Tesla, the famed scientist and inventor. A genius ahead of his time and champion of AC, inventor of the Tesla Coil and lover of pigeons. His name lives on today Poll ...

His father, Milutin Tesla, was a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church. From an early age, Nikola Tesla demonstrated an obsessiveness that left those around him puzzled and amused.

Tesla coil performance art is probably not quite what inventor Nikola Tesla had in mind for the technology, but there is some seriously cool stuff out there.

Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest electrical inventors who ever lived. His technological achievements transformed America from a nation of isolated communities to a country connected by power ...