Shocked visitors to the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago looked at
an incomprehensible and terrible performance: Tesla connected a voltage of two million volts to itself. At the same time, he, as if nothing had happened, smiled, and in his hands Edison's lamps burned brightly ...
We now know that it is not the voltage that kills, but the current, and that the high-frequency current passes only along the surface covers. In the infancy of electricity, such a trick seemed like a miracle.
Tesla demonstrates
electric
lamps burning with him
in hand