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Of all the terrific artifacts and demonstrations featured at the SPARK Museum, we think the most clever is the recreation of Nikola Tesla’s famous Egg of Columbus display, featured in SPARK’s War of the Currents exhibit. The egg was inspired by the Italian explorer and guy who bumped into the New World four times and refused to acknowledge it, Christopher …
It’s always surprising what visitors—especially kids—find memorable about their experience at the SPARK Museum. For some, it’s seeing the rare artifacts and original devices. For others, it’s the hair-raising demonstrations, and interactive galleries. (We defy anyone to forget seeing Elvis, the singing Tesla coil, as it blasts-out a familiar melody via 4 foot bolts of synthesized lightning. You can’t unsee …
By Hannah Durland Picture this: You’re watching an old sci-fi movie. The scene opens with a slow pan over an alien landscape. Nothing has happened yet, but the heroes still walk forward with apprehension. Everyone is waiting for the break in the tension, for something to happen. Then, a strange high-pitched sound is played, announcing the arrival of the alien …
It’s that time of year again when the air gets cooler and the nights get longer. It’s the spooky season coming our way, and no getting around it. The fact is Halloween would be a lot less spooky if not for some of the fantastic electrical devices on display at the SPARK Museum. Just going through the “A list” of …
On Saturday, October 1st, 2022, the SPARK Museum will celebrate the 10th anniversary of what has become their premier visitor attraction: The MegaZapper Electrical Show
Whenever folks are asked to think of something useful that uses electricity, the lightbulb is almost always an immediate response. You remember, those round little bulbs with the wires inside—those little ships-in-a-bottle—that can burn the prints right off your fingertips? To put it simply, we think the lightbulb is the greatest electrical appliance ever created, and with good reason. It …
In 2003—after over one hundred years of research and experimentation, after millions of miles of wire and cable strung all over the planet—wireless telegraphy had finally become the dominant force in telecommunications. For the first time since its introduction in 1892, the land-line telephone had dropped in world-wide popularity and has been dropping like a rock ever since.
On June 3rd, SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention and the Women in Leadership Group at EnerSys, came together to host the Museum’s first ever Girls STEM Night.
Since the beginning of time people have looked up to the sky and wondered about our relationship to the celestial world above and everything in- between. Lightning has always been a baffling wonderment.
The ‘Sarnoff speaker’ is considered the rarest, most exotic, and expensive horn receiver in existence today. Considered too valuable to reproduce, this beautifully crafted speaker has a permanent home at the SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention. The remarkable story of how this one-of-a-kind speaker came into existence, and how the Museum ultimately acquired it, begins at the turn of the …
