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  2. Jacob's Ladder (1990 film) - Wikipedia

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    Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 American psychological horror film [4] directed by Adrian Lyne, produced by Alan Marshall and written by Bruce Joel Rubin.It stars Tim Robbins as Jacob Singer, an American infantryman whose experiences during his military service in Vietnam result in strange, fragmentary visions and bizarre hallucinations that continue to haunt him.

  3. Tesla coil - Wikipedia

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    A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit designed by inventor Nikola Tesla in 1891. [1] It is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high-frequency alternating-current electricity. [2] [3] Tesla experimented with a number of different configurations consisting of two, or sometimes three, coupled resonant electric circuits.

  4. Neon-sign transformer - Wikipedia

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    Tesla coil power supplies – used in small to medium-sized Tesla coils as the main source of high voltage. Jacob's Ladder – a climbing arc device often pictured in older horror films. Charging Capacitors – an NST makes a useful high voltage power supply to charge high voltage capacitors.

  5. History of the Tesla coil - Wikipedia

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    Nikola Tesla patented the Tesla coil circuit on April 25, 1891. [4] [5] and first publicly demonstrated it May 20, 1891 in his lecture "Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination" before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at Columbia College, New York.

  6. Jacob's Ladder (2019 film) - Wikipedia

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    Jacob's Ladder is a 2019 American psychological horror film directed by David M. Rosenthal and written by Jeff Buhler and Sarah Thorp. A remake of the 1990 film of the same name , it stars Michael Ealy , Jesse Williams , Nicole Beharie , Karla Souza , and Guy Burnet .

  7. Colin Mackay (writer) - Wikipedia

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    His final work was an autobiography entitled Jacob's Ladder which included talking about his planned suicide. [3] Books. The Sound of the Sea (1990) ...

  8. Jacob's Ladder - Wikipedia

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    Picture of the Jacob's Ladder in the original Luther Bibles (of 1534 and also 1545). Jacob's Ladder (Biblical Hebrew: סֻלָּם יַעֲקֹב ‎, romanized: Sūllām Yaʿăqōḇ) is a ladder or staircase leading to Heaven that was featured in a dream the Biblical Patriarch Jacob had during his flight from his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis (chapter 28).

  9. Henry Leroy Transtrom - Wikipedia

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    Henry Leroy Transtrom (1885–1951) was an American inventor and showman who worked with high voltage electricity.His book, Electricity at High Pressures and Frequencies, [1] (1913) is still used as a guide for constructing homemade Tesla coils.