Hot Springs, Arkansas has a nice Science Museum, at least I and the kids
enjoyed it many years ago. Charles
On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 10:38 AM, David Rieben <drieben@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Although I cannot help you in sourcing a builder for the coil that you
> describe in your post, I must say that this is the first that I have even
> heard of a science themed museum in the OKC area. The best science museum
> that I have had the pleasure of visiting so far, by far, is the science
> museum in St. Louis. Being in the Memphis area, OKC would easily be within
> a day's drive from me, just like St. Louis, though. I'll have to make a
> note of that should I travel through Oklahoma in the future.
>
> Although it has been a good number of years since I have been to the St.
> Louis Science Museum (early 2000's, I believe), I do recall them having a
> similar sized, SG driven Tesla coil set up in an elevated and (grounded)
> caged room pretty near to the main entrance. It ran on an intermittent and
> low duty cycle as well and its distinctive sound would catch your attention
> as you came through the main entrance (if your entrance was timed just
> right).
>
> David
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve White" <steve.white1@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Tesla Coil List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2018 10:57 PM
> Subject: [TCML] OKC Science Museum Tesla Coil
>
>
>
> I was visiting my mother in Oklahoma City a few weeks ago. While there, I
>> visited the Oklahoma City Science Museum. The museum had a medium-sized
>> tesla coil enclosed in a plexiglass room. It could be operated about once a
>> minute for about 10 seconds. The secondary appeared to be about 4 feet tall
>> and about 4 inches in diameter. It had a toroid that looked like about 4" x
>> 12". The capacitors appeared to be a bank of doorknob capacitors. It used
>> some kind of static spark gap which was not visible. It also had what
>> appeared to be the biggest NST that I have ever seen as the power source.
>> Spark length into free air was about 2 feet.
>>
>> Does anyone know who built this coil?
>>
>> Steve
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