Mad Electricity Worksheet Answers
Question: How many patents did Tesla file for?
Answer: 7
Question: What was one of Tesla’s “crazy” ideas?
Answer: wireless energy that could travel throughout the world
Question: What was Tesla’s most famous invention?
Answer: Tesla coil
Question: How many volts does the coil jump up the 120 volts from the wall?
Answer: 500,000
Question: How does a Tesla coil work?
Answer: A Tesla Coil produces sound by switching on and off a certain number of times per second, causing air molecules around it to heat up and vibrate.
Question: What did Tesla want to do with an enormous Tesla coil?
Answer: make earth a giant outlet and give energy to everybody
Question: How many volts could Tesla’s Colorado coil generate?
Answer: 12 million
Question: How could Tesla or anybody else light up a light just by holding it?
Answer: The human body, at any given moment, produces energy equivalent to a 100 watt light bulb.
Question: Which types of waves are we using to send messages to outer space?
Answer: radio waves
Question: Tesla didn’t send the first major radio message across the Atlantic. who did?
Answer: Marconi