A Tesla coil makes dramatic lightning like displays of electric power such as these sparks to me in a Faraday Cage.

The “Modern Thinker” above is my interpretation of Rodin’s classic statue the “Thinker”. It conveys the concept of the modern electrical age with the barrage of electrical interference in our lives. So much is happening and demanding our attention that it is difficult to “think”.
Believe that?. Me neither. I just like making pretty spark photos….
By the way, no photoshopping anywhere on this site. It’s all what the camera sees. Check out the Modern Thinker page for the construction of this.

Above shows “Tesladownunder car theft protection”.

Above shows a Tesla coil with rotating long breakout point looking dramatic on time exposure of 22 seconds. The “Eye of Sauron”. The two photos above have been seen by perhaps 500,000 people worldwide now since Feb 2007 and resulted in well over 100,000 hits to my site.  It was featured on some big sites and hundreds of blogs and was also popular in Russia and Japan.

Above is an animated gif showing the effects of rotating the rod on top. In real time it takes 7 seconds per rotation.

                 

Above is my recreation of Tesla and his wireless light globe compared with the original.
No photoshopping – ever.

                

Above, the Dalek cage. Just what you need to get up close and personal with lotsa volts. And you can even use a phone in it.

Above: How about red sparks?

                   

Above: There are lots of other colors to see in multi-colored sparks. These are single photographic exposures through clear and colored filters in turn.

Above, swimming with 100,000 volts. Sure it’s safe. Tin hats protect you.

Above, Tesla coils with sparks from 2 inches (5cm) to 11 feet (3.3m).

     

Above, a briefcase Tesla coil and sparks in a light globe.

                              
 Above, Tesla coils sparks onto my tongue, driving a string of up to 30 fluoro tubes and apologies to Michelangelo’s Creation.

   

Above, some unusual solid state Tesla coils on the left using SIDACs instead of a spark gap, centre using a Royer circuit and on the right a vacuum tube based coil and its sparks.

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