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Tesla: Master of Lightning
Celebrating 150 years of Nikola Tesla's birth (1856-1943)
Tesla Year in 2006
Above: Tesla holding a gas-filled phosphor coated wireless light bulb which he developed in the 1890's half a century before fluorescent lamps come into use.
Above: Experimental station at Colorado Springs where the first wireless transmission experiments were performed (1899-1900).
Above: Tesla oscillator creating a great electrical movement.
Above: The flame-like discharge measures sixty-five feet across. Tesla sits in front of the oscillator.
Above: Tesla beside his spiral coil, with Roger Boskovich's book "Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis", East Houston St. 46, New York, 1901.
Above: Experiments with differently attuned coils, and responding to the vibration transmitted to them through the earth from an electrical oscillator.
Above: Symmetrical discharges from additionally tuned Tesla coil, where discharges are stopped from streaming to the roof of the building.