Everyone interested in electronics should build at least one Tesla coil. But be careful. Sure, the high voltage can be dangerous, but the urge to build lots of coils is even worse. [Learnelectronics] ...

Electric current is often magic and mysterious. Before people knew about electricity, many natural phenomena appeared as supernatural events caused by angry gods. Fortunately people today know physics ...

A Tesla coil easily makes it to the top spot on our list of “Mad Scientist” equipment we want for the lab, second only to maybe a Jacob’s Ladder. Even then, it’s kind of unfair advantage because you ...

A few weeks ago, the design mag Dezeen reported on a lecture by the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels at the Royal Academy in London. During the lecture, Ingels ...

Tesla created Tesla coil to make his wireless inventions work. Premieres 10/18 on PBS. Nikola Tesla needed ambient electricity to make his wireless inventions work. So he created the Tesla coil.

If you have a newer-model smartphone it probably comes with built-in wireless charging. There's even talk of wireless charging coming to electric vehicles in the future. Image someday having a home ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nikola Tesla’s contributions to modern technology can’t be overstated, and the fact that some of his original designs are so darn ...