The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum
http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com
Jeff Behary, Curator
West
Phone:
30. July 2006
To Whom It May Concern:
The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum is a public collection of
original apparatus dating from the 1850s – 1940s. Included in the collection are
eight of the earliest surviving high frequency Tesla Coils built from 1896-1901
by X-Ray pioneer Thomas Burton Kinraide.
Also included are the remains of over 500 glass plate negatives that Mr.
Kinraide made of electrical discharges and phenomenon often read about in Tesla
lectures but scarcely documented photographically.
The museum also contains the archive of the H. G. Fischer Company, which includes
90 years of authentic medical apparatus that used Tesla patents and
concepts. This was only company never to
have its apparatus banned for illegitimate claims, unlike the dozens of other
companies that unethically mislead the public through quackery. Included are over 3000 hand-drawn blueprints
of X-Ray machines, Diathermy Machines, Surgical Tesla Coils, Alternating
Current generators, and related apparatus and accessories for these
devices; Original lectures
from the 1920s of what would today be considered “Tesla Conferences”; over 3
dozen magazines of physician records; and a wealth of catalogues, wiring
diagraphs, original paperwork, invoices, etc.
The museum is also home to
many early Tesla articles and publications, as well as an original obituary and
several original Tesla Speedometers which were patented in 1916 and use his
well-known “Tesla Turbine” design internally.
The latest task I am taking
on at the museum is to try and enlighten the public about the original and
earliest forms of Tesla Coils, of which there is so little information
available. I have started by doing what
I can with the materials that I have.
The first effort is to recreate with three-dimensional CAD software
color renderings of the original apparatus and patents with effort that the
public might embrace these concepts more easily if presented in a more modern
approach.
The next step is to
gradually build each of the concepts into working prototypes that can be
demonstrated at Tesla lectures and events across the world.
My request is to all who may have original photos of Tesla oscillators from
this period or have obscure information that could facilitate the reproductions
of these apparatus to come forward and assist in this effort.
I am not seeking financial
support for this project, but do seek original materials such as silk and
cotton covered enamel wire, hard rubber tubing and sheet, lead and tin foils,
paraffin and beeswax, rosin, surplus brass machine stock, iron wire, copper
strap, etc. Also, services are requested
such as the ability to do iron and brass castings for components of the mercury
interrupters.
Anyone who can offer
information, period materials, or simply verbal support will be mentioned on a
plaque that will accompany each reproduction that is created.
Many thanks for your time,
Best regards,
Jeff Behary
The Turn Of
The
Left: Electrical Experimenter July 1919; Right: Reproduction
made by Jeff Behary
A selection of randomly published
Tesla Oscillator photos from Electrical Experimenter 1919 issues and S.H.
Monell’s “High Frequency Currents In Medicine And Dentistry”
”Tesla’s Tesla Coils”
Lecture on Tesla’s original coils and circuit controllers made from 1891 - 1897
