Nikola Tesla was the first person known to have recreated a ball lightning-like charge in the lab, in 1904. In the hundred years since then, only a few researchers have successfully repeated Tesla ...

Making plasma from metal vapor is a bit unusual, though, and the sodium experiment is pretty interesting and a fun use of that Tesla coil in your closet. This is similar to a sodium vapor lamp ...

You might have seen similar releases of plasma in Tesla coils or plasma balls. In general, these sparks are very chaotic and are used in places where that chaos is manageable or not too damaging.

1904: Physicist Nikola Tesla attempts to explain the phenomenon of “ball lightning.” Ball lightning (if it exists at all) is an electrical discharge, usually appearing in spherical shape that ...