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(C) Jeff Behary 2007
In Quest Of Kinraide:
Recovered Artifacts:
May 2005 / Feb. 2007
These pages are dedicated to the Kinraide family,
and to the Williams family: you all made their recovery possible.
A collection of items brought back as checked baggage in Feb. 2007
Piece of negative envelope found: Name: Keely M[otor] Remarks: Side v[iew]
Keely Motor negative recovered in 2005
Inverse of Keely Motor negative...
What looks like some zinc sheets...
...turns out to be copper!
Left: Kinraide's perfume bottles from family; right: Recovered bottles from JP house
High Frequency Induction Coil - 1896 / 1897
Section of Kinraide High Frequency Induction Coil
Closeup of section showing wires through glass support rods
End support contains no wire; it is for the flat wound primary coil (not recovered).
Approx. 8" capacity induction coil, recovered in 2005.
2007: Newly recovered Kinraide Coil - bottom, showing glass supports
2007: Recovered Kinraide Coil, top view.
2007: Second recovered Kinraide Coil - bottom view.
Top view.
Newly recovered condenser (front), previously recovered condenser (back).
Perhaps used for Cyclone or Jackson Coils.
2005: Large discharger terminal for Pancake Coil. Pancake missing, but imprint of winding/glass rods still intact on the bottom.
2005: Recovered 14" Kinraide Coil.
2005: Re-poured Kinraide Coil.
2005: Recovered Kinraide Coil
2005: Recovered Kinraide Coil
2005: Recovered Kinraide Coil, side.
2005: Recovered Kinraide Coil, top view.
2005: Recovered Kinraide Coil, flat spiral, bottom view.
2005: Recovered Kinraide Coil, flat spiral, top view.
2005: Recovered Kinraide Coil - having familiar commercial shape.
Recovered Kinraide Coil (2005) and support forms; placed on hard rubber support recovered in 2007.
Top view.
Hard rubber coil resting plate, cleaned up.
Before cleaning, bottom view.
Top view, before cleaning.
An unknown hand-made tool, recovered 2007.
Misc. coil items from 2005
A cast piece of beeswax/rosin, a cloth covered wire, a human hair - recovered 2007.
A collection of human hairs - likely the reddish brown hair is Kinraide's. A white hair also recovered, perhaps Keely's?
2005: Recovered newspaper clippings from 1899, glass rods for Kinraide Coils; hair; 2007: Bobbie pin.
Several of many metal castings and ceramic castings. (2005/2007)
2005: Hard rubber drilled support; Coil insulation tubes (hard rubber); Brass conducting piece
2007: Toilet hardware from high frequency induction coil tank.
Back: Beeswax and Rosin from 2005
Front: Beeswax and Rosin from 2007
One of the newly recovered Kinraide Coils shows a 3/8" spark when placed inside an 18" diameter single turn of copper wire with 25 watts of current.