Tesla's Rotating Egg
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- Dimensions: 75 x 66 x 10 cm
- TMZ, inv. n° 734
A device for demonstrating the activity of a rotating magnetic field. It was Tesla's most significant discovery, enabling the use of alternating current. The replica was manufactured in 1976 at the Museum, based on Tesla's original (New York, 1888). It was a popular way of demonstrating one of the rotating magnetic fields's effects which Tesla used on the 1893 World Expo in Chicago, by placing a metal egg to stand on the top through rotation. The model, intended for demonstration purposes, may also serve for a number of other tests.
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