Destin, from YouTube channel Smarter Every Day, dives into the topic of Tesla coils in a way no science class ever could.
If you’ve never seen lightning bolts play music, strike a human and leave him standing, a real Ghost Busters style lightning gun or electric bolts in super slow-mo… you MUST watch this entire video.
The video is highly entertaining to watch from beginning to end, but if you want to cut to the juicy parts, here’s a quick content guide:
- Tesla Coil Speaker Playing Mario Brothers Theme
- How to break a Tesla Coil
- A much larger Tesla Coil and huge lightning bolts into the ground
- The Tesla Coil Lightning Gun
- Lightning bolts in super slow motion (28,000 frames per second)
- What happens when you point a Tesla Coil Gun at a real person?
Always loved this guy Tesla! It’s amazing he was shortchanged in history. I think weave accommodated both Tesla and Edison…