A Summary Of The Tesla Coil

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A balmy summer's day in Colorado Springs, a stout, well-built man sat fiddling with a gargantuan gadget as the opal studded sky shone down upon his back, slowly warming the brown woolen sweater that pressed ever so lightly against the supple skin of his torso. Moving over to his ancient mahogany desk, the breeze tugged on his clay colored locks; he reached out for the thin, textured piece of paper that made up the final draft of his most famous invention, the Tesla Coil. Developed over the span of many decades, Nikola Tesla’s most famous invention proved difficult to produce (“Tesla: Life and Legacy Colorado Springs”). Tesla had hoped to utilize the futuristic device to transmit electricity through air, eliminating the need for power lines across the globe (“Tesla”). However, Tesla's efforts were futile. Beaten by Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, the Tesla Coil was discovered to be able to …show more content…

Next comes testing, the process in which mechanical engineers put their prototypes through various situations that correspond with those that would appear in a day to day environment (“Mechanical”). Testing allows for the engineer to physically observe any problems in the products design, tweaking these issues often requires the basic skills one would need in the average mechanical engineer’s workplace, “Mechanical engineers typically do the following: redesign mechanical and thermal devices or subsystems, using analysis and computer-aided design, analyze the test results and change the design or system as needed, and oversee the manufacturing process for the device” (“Mechanical”). After testing and tweaking is complete, the item then must be presented to a company's superiors, meet all its previous requirements, and be introduced into the international market (Wolf). However, mechanical engineers are involved in the design and production of these parts, not often distribution

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