Re: real life applications

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Original poster: Chris Roberts <quezacotl_14000000000000@xxxxxxxxx>

PBS has a good site about Tesla that I used to get my first general 
knowledge of his history. At this page it generally describes what 
led Tesla to start building the coil:
<http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_hifreq.html>http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_hifreq.html
And this page describes some of the impacts it had near the bottom of the page:
<http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ins/lab_tescoil.html>http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ins/lab_tescoil.html
To me the Tesla coil seemed to contribute most as an invention that 
helped prompt discovery in other areas that yielded many other 
important inventions. Radio, X-Rays, etc, are all things that 
branched out of the Tesla coil design itself. Much like the Leyden 
jars in earlier days, it directly evolved into objects we use, but 
probably more importantly it spawned several other ideas and 
inventions off if its experimentation.
Of course, the benefit of the coil I notice the most is that it 
provides hardware stores, junk shops, neon stores, ebay, etc, with a 
constant income from dedicated, maybe addicted, hobbyists like myself.


-Chris