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Nikola Tesla was one of the world's most brilliant inventors, and least known.
As a kid I always wanted to build a tesla coil.
Tesla invented many things we take for granted (eg brushless electric motors).
He wanted to distribute electricity not with wires, but electromagnetic waves - hence the tesla coil. The tesla coil I made plans was a high voltage coil orientated vertically. You could show off it's properties by doing various "tricks" including holding a fluorescent tube in the same room and it would light up.
Doing a google search for Nikola Tesla or tesla coil, will give you hours of fascinating reading.
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