tesla

By anders pearson 06 Apr 2001

i went to a lecture on Nikola Tesla given by John M. Cohn from IBM today. i’ve been mildly obsessed with Tesla since early highschool when i read Man Out of Time so i didn’t really learn anything new about him but i enjoyed it anyway. at the end of the talk we got to play with a big tesla coil though. enormous high voltage arcs. wirelessly powering flourescent lights from a few meters away. vaporizing the aluminum in CDs leaving the plastic around it intact. too cool.