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I dont know about US seizures, but Tesla and Edison battled about electricity delivery, with Tesla winning.

There is a huge Tesla spark generator in the Boston Museum of Science. Bzzt! Zzzzap! Pow!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

There is a huge Tesla spark generator in the Boston Museum of Science.

The Boston Museum of Science houses the Thomson Theater of Electricity which was built to house the original air-insulated Van de Graaff generator created by Robert Van de Graaff and donated to the Museum by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1951.
Is this the beastie you were thinking of?