They provided an early spark, but it looks like the spark did not catch.

A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891.

Imagine a coil. For those of you that are engineers, there's a capacitor attached to it too.

Built the Tesla coil. This tower was built on Long Island back at the beginning of the 1900s.

Given these conditions, even a small spark could ignite a wildfire.

Also, the voltage per turn in any coil is higher because the rate of change of magnetic flux is at high frequencies.

Examples Gasoline (petrol) is a fuel for use in a spark ignition engine.

For Russia, such integration would provide a real spark for economic and social modernization.

Russian society has become a dry peat bog, waiting for a spark to ignite it.

5aled_DH I hope this is the spark that wakes up the nation from its slumber

They shed light on other cultures, reveal different patterns of thought, and spark our curiosity.

Reducing this to 20 would spark an impressive increase in demand and employment across many industries.

His presence in the country might well spark a clamor for his reluctant return to politics.

Indeed, the 12th Five Year Plan is likely to spark the greatest consumption story in modern history.

The cavalier response heard from Washington insiders is that the Chinese wouldn t dare spark such an endgame.

Will holding the world s greatest single sporting event in Africa spark similar interest for the continent s women?

To give the graffiti its real power, let's remember the spark that lit the Syrian revolt flame.

These meetings spark new friendships and are a rich breeding ground for ideas and collaborations across borders.

Without loudspeakers, we are not responsible for chants that can spark controversy, since this never happened before.

The spark that started the war in the country in 2011 was a graffiti made by teenagers.

And if you can cause that coil to resonate, what will happen is it will pulse at alternating current frequencies at a fairly high frequency, by the way.

The inventor of the current limiting reactance coil was Vern E. Alden who filed the patent on November 20, 1917 with an issue date of September 11, 1923.

BERLIN Egypt lies at the heart of the Arab revolution, even if the original spark occurred in Tunisia.

Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

History has repeatedly demonstrated that such ambiguity, particular if practiced by a rising power, can spark an arms race.

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

And I really want to spark their imaginations the way mine was sparked as a little girl watching Star Wars.

Second, Central Asia s leadership transitions could tempt outside powers to exploit the resulting instability and spark a struggle for influence.

The Rio 20 meeting in Brazil next year is another opportunity to spark the transition to a global green economy.

There are few subjects that spark the imagination of bloggers worldwide and United States foreign policy is one of them.

Room temperature mixtures with oxygen could not be detonated by an electric spark until they contained at least 23.5 Cl2O.

And the spark of that beauty, the spark of that humanity transforms into hope, and we know, whether we choose the path of music or of medicine, that's the very first thing we must instill within our communities, within our audiences, if we want to inspire healing from within.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

US actions will spark Iraqi criticism that Maliki is impotent or an American puppet, but those charges have already been made.

Could something similar happen digitally, with a spark of misinformation igniting a conflagration and wreaking havoc before the truth is revealed?

President Benigno S. Aquino III accused persons of interest associated with his predecessor s administration of conspiring to spark trouble in Sabah

The first stage operated at lower voltage and provided the energy for the second stage to spark at a higher voltage.

The third class of treatment was electric shock therapy, in which an electric shock was delivered from a galvanic battery (later electromagnetic generators) via an induction coil to greatly increase the voltage.

On the other hand, a center right coalition between the Christian Democrats and the Free Democrats could spark the ECB into action.

History will record that the match Bouazizi lit on December 17, 2010, became the fortuitous spark that ignited an Arab prairie fire.

When the effect of the small radius of curvature of the wire itself is overcome, the lower secondary coil behaves as a conductor of large radius of curvature, corresponding to that of the drum.

With a movie night, there would be a ready made excuse for inviting glitterati to attend G 8 events to help spark discussions.

The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them.

Some analysts hoped that last year s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear catastrophe would spark a third effort at national reinvention, but that has not yet occurred.

Violence against civilians, as practised by individual criminals, organized groups, insurgent armies, and even national military forces continued to spark massive dislocations in other areas.