Desi Tesla coil developed by Kerala-based inventor goes viral
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An amateur scientist from Thiruvananthapuram who recreated the 19th century Tesla coil developed by Nikola Tesla, which allows wireless transfer of electricity, has gone viral with around 4 million science enthusiasts from across the word watching the video of the over-a-century-old invention in Instagram and YouTube. Though the invention by Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American inventor, had not created an industrial revolution, coil producing high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity is still the attraction of science buffs.
