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 | | A Tesla coil is a transformer with an air-core primary and a capacitor-tuned secondary, used as a source of high frequency power. |
 | | Designed by William Wysock of Tesla Technology Research Inc., the Tesla coil at the Mid-America Science Museum consists of a 408 volt AC to 16,000 AV volt power controller, primary coil, secondary coil, capacitor bank, rotary spark gap, and a large copper electrode discharge sphere from which the six to eight foot lightning-like discharges originate. |
 | | Nikolai Tesla, who brought the world radios, electric motors, generators, transformers, turbines, x-rays, neon lamps, and many other important inventions, is a little-known inventor and scientist. |
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