Image: Small Tesla coil kit 1918

Description: A Tesla coil, a resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla that generates very high voltage, radio frequency alternating current electricity at low current levels. This example is an educational kit for use in classroom demonstrations. It probably produces on the order of 100 kV at frequency of around several hundred kilohertz. It consists of a step-up transformer (right) which produces several thousand volts, a pair of Leyden jar capacitors (center) a spark gap (not visible) and the resonant "oscillation transformer", (left). The high voltage is produced between the ends of the coil and jumps across the gap between the wires above the coil.
Title: Small Tesla coil kit 1918
Credit: Retrieved April 9, 2015 from Sidney Gernsback, Harry Winfield Secor (1918) Experimental Electricity Course in 20 Lessons, 2nd Ed., The Experimenter Publishing Co., New York, p. 116, fig. 11 on Google Books
Author: Sidney Gernsback
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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