When Nikola Tesla invented Tesla coils, he probably didn’t imagine an epic dueling banjo battle being played out on his high current electrical transimtters, but that hasn’t stopped it from happening.
The thing that really is cool about this is that the arcs coming from the Tesla coils are NOT simply responding to the music, they are MAKING the music by the frequency they are firing at.
Check out the awesomeness for yourself. Energy truly is an amazing phenomenon.
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If that looks somewhat familiar, you may have seen a pretty awesome scene in the Disney movie, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Yeah yeah yeah, Disney + Nicolas Cage isn’t usually a great combo, but I like science and I like magic, so I dug it. Check out the epic scene:



