The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum
http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com



Museum Collection:  1600 - 1900
Static Electric Machines and Franklenism
 
   
Late 1700s Static Electric Machine
Benjamin Franklin's Original Static Electric Machine
Carré Static Machine - James W. Queen & Co.
Replicating and Restoring Leather Pads for
Frictional Static Electric Machines
Restoring Carre Machine with videos
Carré Machine Sparks
Ode to Otto von Guericke and Francis Haukesbee:
Spherical Globe Frictional Static Electric Machine
Clamp On Winter Machine!
Electrophorus and Winter Machine
Restoring Collectors / Dischargers for Dan's
Frank S Betz 12 Plate Floor Model Static Machine
McIntosh Toepler Holtz Machine
1885 McIntosh Atkinson Frictional Static Machine
Atkinson Static Machine YouTube video
Shinn Double Toepler Holtz Machine
From the National Science Museum in Maynooth Ireland!
Van Houten & Ten Broek Floor Model
Holtz / Wimshurst Static Electric Machine
Wimshurst Machine from the Collection Of Andreas Krieger
 Feature Exhibition:
 Dodd & Struthers Static Electric   
Machines
 Feature Exhibition: Shinn Static Electric Machine
 Feature Exhibition: Moore Apparatus
 Early Static Electric Machines
Electrostatic Meter
 Static Electric Machines Gallery
Long Island New York Photos:
Static Machines from PV Scientific
Electricity Is Poison!  Electro-Static Eliminator
Small Replica Nairne Static Machine
Works In Progress:
Frictional Static Machine Collector;
Globe Static Machine;
Small Replica Nairne Static Machine
Otto von Guericke / Francis Hauksbee 16" Diameter Globe Static Machine
Piffard Hyperstatic Transformer:
Tesla Coil powered by a Static Electric Machine
Making Toepler Holtz Static Machine Disks
Making a Toepler Holtz Machine
Toepler Holtz Static Induction Apparatus
For Treating Nervous Disorders
Piffard Hyperstatic Transformer Experiments
with Toepler Holtz and Scheidel Western
Tesla Coil
Piffard Hyperstatic Experiments 2
Toepler Holtz Static Electric Machine for Electrostatic Experiments
Winter Frictional Electrostatic Machine Experiments
YouTube:  Winter Frictional Electrostatic Machine Movie
15" Disk Winter Machine Reproduction
15" Disk Winter Machine Collectors
Restoring Collectors / Dischargers for Dan's
Frank S Betz 12 Plate Floor Model Static Machine
Winter Frictional Electrostatic Machine Experiments
Experiments - making 1800s rubber...
15" Disk Winter Machine Reproduction
15" Disk Winter Machine Collectors
Automatic Electrophorus
Wool / Acrylic Frictional Static Electric Machine
Replica Carre Dielectric Machine
YouTube video of 15" Winter Machine Replica
Simplified Acrylic / Wool Frictional Disk Static Machine
Toepler Holtz Machine for Static Experiments
Static Machine made from Wood, Wool, and CPVC
36" Static Machine
36" Frictional Static Machine
Static Crown Breeze Electrode
Experimental Leyden Phial
   

 

Featured Restoration:
Frank S. Betz 24-Plate Toepler Holtz Machine

Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
Restoring 24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine
Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine, with Leyden Jars
(Video)
Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine, without Leyden Jars
(Video)
Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
One Year Of Restoration Photos
Page One
Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
One Year Of Restoration Photos
Page Two
Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
Jeff's Spark Photos, Week 1
Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
General Whole Body Electrification Video
Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
Testing a Helium Filled Tube
Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
General Sparks from machine - 12"
Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
First Ultra-Violet Photograph
Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
Amazing Ultra-Violet Photograph
of Doorknob Capacitors - .00067 mfd @ 120 kVDC
Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
Amazing Ultra-Violet Photograph
Full Resolution
Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
Jeff's Random Pics Discharging
Doorknob Capacitors - .00067 mfd @ 120 kVDC
 

Further Reading:

An Account Of The Effects Of Electricity In Paralytick Cases
Benjamin Franklin, December 1757
Experiments on Electricity Made At Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin, 1769
     * Rare  *
Electrical Experiments of Benjamin Franklin, Part 2
A Complete Treatise On Electricity
Tiberius Cavallo - 1795 (4th Ed) 
Electricity or Ethereal Fire Considered
T. Gale, (Medical Electricity, 1802) 
ORIGINAL Electricity or Ethereal Fire Considered
T. Gale, (Medical Electricity, 1802) 
Electricity and Its Recent Applications:
Edward Trevert:
Töpler Static Machine and Induction Coil Plans 
Electrical Instrument-Making For Amateurs - S R Bottone
Physical Technics Of Practical Instructions For
Making Experiments In Physics And The Construction
Of Physical Apparatus With The Most Limited Means
Dr. J. Frick
L E Knott Apparatus Catalogue Excerpts
Static Electric Experiments
Electrical Instrument-Making For Amateurs - S R Bottone
Physical Technics Of Practical Instructions For
Making Experiments In Physics And The Construction
Of Physical Apparatus With The Most Limited Means
Dr. J. Frick
Shutts & Walters Co. Catalogue
Electrical Influence Machines - John Gray
Electric Spark Photos for Salesmanship
Dinner with William Benham Snow
Crookes Tubes And Static Machines -
S. H. Monell - Feb. 6, 1897
Keystone Electric Company Electro-therapeutic
Appliance Catalogue
Letters between Dr. W. E. Steavenson
and his publisher concerning his book
about Medical Electricity...
Cox Cavendish Catalogue of X-Ray Apparatus and Electro-
Medical Apparatus and Allied Apparatus of every description.
 Static Electricity from Medical Electricity and Röntgen Rays
L. E. Knott Influence Machine  
The Jackson Coil Catalog  

Early Static Engravings from Wellcome Library, Europeana.eu
Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Edward Nairne;
Excerpts from Nairne Patent (Medical Static Machine)
Plante's Rhesostatic Machine and Lichtenberg Figures