Looking for a neat trick to do with your Tesla coil? [The Action Lab] uses his coil to make a metal plasma — in particular, sodium. You can see the results in the video below. To create a metal ...

the amusing aspects of it. Then it’s on to femto second, laser-induced plasma filaments in air, a mini-Tesla coil with a DC input and the construction of the world’s largest Tesla coil. Nikola Tesla, ...

Nikola Tesla ... whose incandescent lamp, introduced in New York in the late 1870s, created a great demand for electric power. Although Edison was not interested in Tesla’s ideas, he hired ...