Lightening was blasting everywhere in Richard Hull’s lab. Of course, you might also consider this his home. He is one of many home inventors.
On this day Richard managed to fry two home computers, a washing machine, and set his television on fire. He had built a 15,000-watt Tesla coil reports The Epoch Times.
Like any true inventor, Hull was ecstatic. From his home in Richmond, Virginia, the electronic systems engineer accomplished what others had attempted for decades–he built an electric magnifier based off notes left by famed inventor Nikola Tesla from the early 20th century.
“[Tesla’s] magnifying transmitter–which was his greatest thing–was probably his best invention, yet his least understood,” Hull said.
Hull is one of thousands who are following the footsteps of past inventors–taking the reins on unfinished technology to realize dreams that are otherwise lost with time.
“The scientific mind is so prolific–and sometimes so devious–that plenty of inventions, curiosities and discoveries lie ‘by the wayside,’ awaiting follow-up researchers who have the requisite curiosity, playfulness or desperation,” Hull wrote in a 1993 report in scientific research magazine, R&D Innovator.
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