The Nikola Tesla Museum from Belgrade has has exhibited in Perth, Western Australia in 2006 and 2011. I was involved as a side attraction as Dr Electric giving a Tesla coil performance which I am explaining above. A bit of cosplay was involved as appropriate to the theme.
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Details of my Tesla coil show are on the Dr Electric page.
Nikola Tesla Museum from Belgrade exhibition 2011
This was hosted by the Tesla forum who have details of the 2011 Exhibition here.
This was held in the grand old Perth Town Hall with good attendances and local media coverage.
Nikola Tesla Museum from Belgrade exhibition 2006
This was held at the Western Power World of Energy Museum in Fremantle, Western Australia and had a wealth of Tesla related historical information and models. This is the first visit for the exhibition which went on to visit Strasbourg, Vienna, Vancouver and Paris.
The Tesla coil above from the new travelling display is a very old style coil with glass plate cap. The Tesla coil above from the new travelling display is a very old style coil with glass plate caps and a serrated wheel gap. It wasn’t a great performer despite the Serbian Orthodox blessings.
A good crowd included many Tesla Forum members and various VIP’s. There were various models including the Wardenclyffe tower. The extensive bilingual posters and graphics were included in full in a 60 page booklet
Replica models demonstrated by the Belgrade Tesla Museum included the first AC motor, bladeless turbine and Egg of Colombus. The egg display uses 415 V 3 phase power of 15A. The last photo is a 1/6 sec exposure to give an idea of the speed of precession.
There is a safety problem with the Belgrade Tesla Museum display coil as all the high voltage wiring is exposed. Children who may be unsupervised hold fluoro tubes and wave them at the Tesla coil. If one or more children touched this and an earth or to each other then they would receive the high voltage of perhaps 9-12 kV at perhaps 20 – 30 mA.
Recognising this and in discussion with the organisers, I had an acrylic safety cover urgently made at my expense and brought up to Perth although it only made the closing days. Unfortunately they weren’t able to include it in the packing and left for Chicago without it.
Interestingly, a large amount of attention was focussed on the safety of my display which has crowd barriers and no-one even gets close. Yet the exhibition display allows children to play with something dangerous. It would never pass Australian safety standards if inspected.
Nevertheless, an interesting show with lots of things I have not seen about Tesla and well received by the public.
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Photo Date: 2006, July 1, 2011, July 9, 2012