Tesla coil

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The Tesla coil is a high-voltage, high-frequency resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla, famous for producing spectacular electrical discharges and demonstrating principles of wireless power transmission.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf electrical resonant transformer circuit
high-voltage generator
application demonstrating electrical discharges
educational demonstrations
entertainment displays
high-voltage research
lighting discharge tubes
plasma research
radio transmission experiments
wireless power transmission experiments
component power supply
primary capacitor
primary coil
secondary coil
spark gap
top-load terminal
developedInCentury 19th century
field electrical engineering
power engineering
radio engineering
hasCharacteristic air-core transformer
capable of producing long electrical discharges
high frequency operation
high voltage output
resonant transformer
historicalUse early radio transmission experiments
wireless lighting experiments
wireless power transmission demonstrations
inventor Nikola Tesla
notableFeature brush discharges
capability to light fluorescent lamps at a distance
long spark streamers
visible corona discharges
operatingFrequencyRange tens of kilohertz to several megahertz
outputType high-voltage alternating current
radio-frequency current
powerSource electronic high-voltage supply
low-frequency high-voltage transformer
safetyRisk burn hazard
electric shock hazard
electromagnetic interference
fire hazard
typicalCoreType air core
usesPrinciple coupled resonant circuits
electromagnetic induction
resonance
transformer action
variant dual-resonant solid-state Tesla coil
solid-state Tesla coil
spark-gap Tesla coil

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Nikola Tesla
knownFor
Nikola Tesla
notableWork
Tesla coil ("dual-resonant solid-state Tesla coil")
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