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12 Electrifying Facts About Nikola Tesla


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11. Electrifying Butterflies

Electrifying Butterflies

courtesy of: mentalfloss.com

Tesla had a free pass from a local electricity company in Colorado to use their grid to power his experiments. In return he would provide anything useful he discovered which could better electricity generation. He obviously used this for the Tesla coil which would send a beam of artificial lightning through the air to a metal rod.
The lightning would choose the path of least resistance when arcing. Tesla described butterflies who were caught in the process of having a halo around them. Coincidentally Tesla blew out several bolts at the power station when trying these experiments which later caused blackouts.


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