Mad Scientists In Preventing The Tesla Coil

The Tesla Coil was developed by a man called Nikola Tesla. Nikola was considered a mad scientist for inventing the Tesla Coil, a device that was used to transfer electricity without wires. In this time that technology was unheard of, but also turned out to be revolutionary. (We still use this today only we call it wireless technology think of it as an upgrade to the original tesla coil.)

This begged the question for the “Mad scientist”. How can the world supply itself with electricity without giant power cords, so Nikola started experimenting. He came up with the hypothesis that he could use 2 metal rods.

The first coil is made of copper, which is considered to be a good electricity conductor. The primary source is connected to a power

source, and powers the coil to conduct electricity towards the 2nd coil. The first coil has to be able to charge up before it conducts electricity to the 2nd coil.
The 2nd coil acts as a sort of receiver by taking that electricity and bouncing it back into something to power it, unless another metal object is close to the 2nd coil. In this case it will hit the 3rd metal object and shoot into the ground from there.
Each coil gets its power from a capacitor under the actual coil. It acts as a battery (or a sponge) and stores the coils energy to generate energy, which is transmitted by a spark gap (The spark gap just allows the electricity to travel from one coil to another.) The second coil capacitor acts as a sponge and soaks up the energy and spits it back at the first coil (Again unless a third object is in place.) A spark gap is a gap of air between 2, that generates a spark of electricity.