{"id":262,"date":"2006-07-10T23:42:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T21:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2006-12-06T15:05:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T13:05:01","slug":"tesla-coils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"Tesla coils"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img id=\"image261\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2006\/07\/Tesla_7ft660.jpg\" alt=\"Tesla_7ft660.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:80%; text-align:center;\">Tesla coil from <a href=\"http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/index.html\">tesladownunder<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Today 150 years ago <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tesla\">Nicola Tesla<\/a> was born &#8211; a well-known electrical engineer, physicist and &#8230;<!--more-->&#8230;finally <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mad_scientist\">mad scientist<\/a>.  Consequently he is praised by Berlin media artists who have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tesla-berlin.de\/_page.php?aktion=SHOW_PAGE&#038;Page_ID=248\">party tonight in his name at Tesla<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Last not least Tesla  is famous for his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tesla_coil\">Tesla coils<\/a>.  If you are ever in the Deutsche Museum in Munich never miss the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deutsches-museum.de\/mum\/video\/video.htm#strom\">heavy current electricity show<\/a>. I have to admit I probably saw it at least 10 times by now (&#8230;starting in early childhood). So I can understand that people want to to build their own coil in their backyard.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=249\">Australian backyards<\/a> seem to be big enough to go for the challenge, at least I found the above image on that <a href=\"http:\/\/tesladownunder.com\/index.html\">impressing tesladownunder site<\/a>. If you dont have a back yard then a small coil does it too &#8211; as can be watched here:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hhF32Tkhrsk\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hhF32Tkhrsk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:80%; text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hhF32Tkhrsk&#038;search=tesla%20coil\">direct link to youtube video<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla coil from tesladownunder Today 150 years ago Nicola Tesla was born &#8211; a well-known electrical engineer, physicist and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,7,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}