Electrifying! Tesla coil film brings powerful 'Lighting Dreams' to Museum of Science

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For centuries, humankind has dreamed of harnessing the terrifying, destructive, and beautiful power of lightning. Since the 19th century, devices like the Tesla coil, which produces high-voltage, alternating-current electricity, have replicated its effects. But in the early 1990s, Alan Gibbs began a quest to forge one Tesla coil to rule them all. In her short film, “Lightning Dreams: The Electrum at Gibbs Farm,’’ Boston-based filmmaker Alberta Chu charts Gibbs’s passion as he commissions the world’s largest Tesla coil.