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Tesla coil
noun
- an air-core transformer used to produce high voltages of high-frequency alternating currents.
tesla coil
noun
- a step-up transformer with an air core, used for producing high voltages at high frequencies. The secondary circuit is tuned to resonate with the primary winding
tesla coil
- An electrical device that generates extremely high voltages, usually for the purpose of creating dramatic electric arcs and lightning effects or for producing x-rays. Tesla coils use step-up transformers to boost the voltage of a power supply and build up large charges in a capacitor. A spark gap periodically shorts out the capacitor, releasing its charge in huge current flows, that generate extremely high voltages (up to ten million volts) through an open-air transformer.
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of Tesla coil1
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of Tesla coil1
Example Sentences
The class had cobbled together a homemade Tesla coil, and wireless messages were sent from the basement to the school auditorium by students who, The Times adjudged, could “handle juice most familiarly.â€
Yet the bells and whistles — like a massive Tesla coil that jolted Dr. Frankenstein’s creation to life — went off without a hitch.
While still in high school, Markham and a friend, Tom Sheally, built a Tesla coil that could make lightning 3 or 4 feet long.
Jean Katambayi used a Tesla coil to zap into life a car-shaped carapace of copper wire, a comment on how sleek electric vehicles rely on Congolese lithium and labor.
A Tesla coil hidden inside the wall behind it creates a high-frequency electromagnetic field, which causes the gas to glow.
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