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DescriptionNikola Tesla's Egg of Columbus at 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition World's Fair.png
English: Nikola Tesla's "Egg of Columbus", a device used by the inventor to demonstrate the rotating magnetic field that drove his new alternating current induction motor by using that magnetic field to spin a copper egg on end.
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Nikola Tesla's electric motor demonstration at the1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition called the "Egg of Columbus"