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Scientist's outside experiment with Tesla coil causing lightning

Using junk and materials from hardware shops, Peter Terren carries out amazing experiments with a Tesla coil – a machine (transformer) that turns electricity into streams or sparks that fire directly into the air or strike nearby objects like lightning.

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Rights: Peter Terren
Published: 2 September 2010Size: 1.93 MB
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