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Richard Wesley Mathias of Hot Springs Village, Arkansas created the Tesla Coil Museum Exhibit Program to inspire, educate and entertain society by donating permanent Tesla coil exhibits to qualifying science museums within the United States. The first of eight donations was placed at the Mid-America Science Museum in Hot Springs, Arkansas in November 2002. This is the most powerful conical coil operating on earth as acclaimed by Guinness World Records. Subsequent coils have been installed and donated to: Insights Science Center, El Paso, Texas - Discovery Museum, Texarkana, Texas - Hands On! Regional Museum, Johnson City, TN - Museum of Discovery, Little Rock, Arkansas - Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, Arizona - KidSenses Children Interactive Museum, Rutherfordton, N.C. (2017) - Discovery Place, Charlotte, N.C. (2018).

Tesla's Legacy...

Attending Irwin Moon's "Sermon From Science" electrifying program at the San Fernando High School auditorium in the early 50's, and frequently visiting the world-famous Griffith Observatory's Tesla Coil exhibit, inspired Richard Wesley Mathias to construct his first two Tesla coils and enter them in the Southern California Science Fair in 1953. These early life experiences motivated Richard to pursue a fulfilling and rewarding professional career in science and technology. Employment included: General Electric Company - Electric Utility Power Generation for over thirty years, Westinghouse Electric Corporation - Industrial Engineering, Shell Oil Company - Offshore Seismic Exploration, and Southern California Edison Company - Electrical Engineering Department where Richard met and married (1959) his loving and devoted wife - Mary Ellen.

Mid-America Science Museum in Hot Springs, Arkansas

Most Powerful Conical Tesla Coil claim was certified by the Guinness World Records on August 29, 2007. Only 3.5% or 2,244 claims were approved in 2006 out of a total of 65,000 worldwide applications! The Records Managers operates with uncompromising impartiality and commitment to veracity. 100 million book copies in 100 different countries and 37 languages have been produced. It's the world's best ever selling copyright book! Certification required considerable solicitation of "Authentication Letters" from many nationally recognized professionals and authorities in the field of Tesla coil technology.

William H. Terbo

As the grand nephew of Nikola Tesla, William H. Terbo (Trbojevich) has the special privilege of being the last living relative of Tesla carrying, in one-quarter measure, blood identical to that of Tesla himself. Also, with travel with his mother, having met with Tesla at the New Yorker Hotel in 1938. Mr. Terbo's activities over the last 40 years have been a combination of Privilege, Honor and Duty. Mr. Terbo speaks regularly on the personality, ideals and accomplishments of Nikola Tesla in worldwide venues. In the past 40 years, he has given more than 250 interviews, spoken to more than 100 symposia, conferences or other events and made on-camera appearances in more than 50 video and radio documentaries for domestic and international network media.

Sermon from Science - Mid-America Science Museum

An intriguing electrifying educational science program presented by Richard Wesley Mathias - Board Vice President, Mid-America Science Museum (2003 -2009), and Mary Ellen Mathias (a.k.a. Professor Sparky). Over 22,000 school students, professional and civic organizations attended the forty-four inspiring programs. The hour-long program included the demonstration of a smaller replica of the Griffith Observatory conical Tesla coil. The primary purpose of the program was to informer the audience of the remarkable life and times of the inventor extraordinaire Nikola Tesla.

Nikola Tesla

"The scientific man does not aim at an immediate results. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way." "The present is theirs. The future, for which I really worked, is mine"

Richard and son David Mathias paid homage to Nikola Tesla by staying in Tesla Room 3327 and 3328 during August 20 through 23, 2008 - where Tesla died alone in room 3327 on January 7, 1943. Meetings were held with Joseph Kinney - Chief Engineer, New Yorker Hotel and Dr. Ljudo Vujovic Secretary General of the Tesla Memorial Society of New York.The New Yorker Hotel is rich in history and nostalgia. Many of the most influential individuals including President John F. Kennedy have slept here.

Nikola Tesla monument 1976 at Niagara Falls - Goat Island, New York. Niagara Falls is known for the beauty of the mighty waterfalls that bear the name, but thanks to Nikola Tesla the production of hydro electricity is a close second. Tesla was the inventor of alternating current and along with George Westinghouse built the world's first hydro-electric plant in 1895 in Niagara Falls New York. Tesla's invention of alternating current or AC as it is known today was revolutionary in the later 1800s because it allowed electrical current to travel miles instead of yards as with direct current.

General Electric Company

General Electric Company Matching Gifts Foundation. The Tesla Coil Museum Exhibit Program would not be possible without the continuing support of the GE Matching gift program that provides a 1:1 match of donated funds to qualifying museums. The GE Foundation is a philanthropic organization who supports employees and retirees through its Matching Grant program.