When was the tesla coil invented and what is it for?”
The Tesla coil was invented more than 100 years ago by Nikola Tesla around 1891. It was meant to generate electricity without wires. The Tesla Coil is a machine for generating extreme high voltages. It’s sort of like the Van De Graaff generator you might have played with in high school science classes, but much more powerful. When you fire it up, the shiny donut/sphere-shaped part on top is energized with about 500,000 volts of high-frequency current. Huge sparks shoot out from it with a deafening noise and the whole room stinks of ozone. The original Tesla coil The Tesla coil was invented more than 100 years ago, as part of mad genius Nikola Tesla’s plan to transmit electrical power without wires. There is a great article on Tesla and his inventions here: http://www.unmuseum.org/tesla.htm Basically, he thought that by building a big enough Tesla coil, with a high enough voltage, he could ionize the whole Earth’s atmosphere
During his lifetime, Tesla invented fluorescent lighting, the Tesla induction motor, the Tesla coil, and developed the alternating current (AC) electrical supply system that included a motor and transformer, and 3-phase electricity. Tesla is now credited with inventing modern radio as well; since the Supreme Court overturned Guglielmo Marconi’s patent in 1943 in favor of Nikola Tesla’s earlier patents. When an engineer (Otis Pond) once said to Tesla, “Looks as if Marconi got the jump on you” regarding Marconi’s radio system, Tesla replied, “Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.” The Tesla coil, invented in 1891, is still used in radio and television sets and other electronic equipment.
