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Introduction To: The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com 
 Click on the links below to view movie clips of the apparatus in operation... |
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Fully-Functioning Antique Tesla Coils and Electro-Medical Apparatus... |
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Campbell Model E Portable X-Ray Machine The size of a small suitcase, these half-kilowatt Tesla Coils produce up to a 6" torrent of sparks between the terminals sufficient to power an X-Ray tube. The machines also provided circuits for powering cautery knives and diagnostic lamps, and have an additional high frequency winding for producing heating effects within the body. |
ca. 1901 - 1904, Campbell Electric Company, Lynn, Massachusetts |
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Seeley Electric "Vulcan" Coil The size of a medium suitcase, this powerful Tesla Coil consumes up to 15 amps. On full power, a flaming arc hisses between the terminals, sufficiently powerful to X-Ray any part of the body in just a few seconds using Victorian technology. |
ca. 1905, Seeley Electrical Laboratories, Los Angeles, California |
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Peerless Violet Ray A classic example of a compact, well-engineered Tesla Coil that was originally designed to treat skin conditions. This concept was adopted initially by a few companies in the early 1900s and grew to over 50 companies by the 1920s with fierce competition that flooded the quackery markets across the United States, Europe, and Australia. |
ca. 1910 - 1915 |
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Reproductions of Historical Apparatus That No Longer Exist... |
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Reproduction Tesla Pancake Coils with Rotary Break Two multi-layered flat spirals powered by low voltage and a rotary spark gap yielding 10,000 breaks per second. With a power consumption of only 100 watts, this unit produces a rich variety of sparks up to 9" in length. |
ca. 1897 Original concept of Nikola Tesla, early machines being destroyed by fire. |
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Reproduction Oudin Resonator of Thomas Stanley Curtis From the man who "wrote the book" on Tesla Coil construction techniques, young pioneer Thomas Stanley Curtis was one of the foremost pioneers of Tesla Coil designs for hobbyists. He paved an experimental path for the construction of wireless telelgraphs, Tesla and Oudin Coils, Induction Coils, Spark Gaps, Stage Apparatus, Electro-Horticulture Apparatus, and even designed and created by hand a fully-working model of Tesla's Remote Control Submarine. |
ca. 1915 - 1920 Original concept of Thomas Stanley Curtis Curtis Electric Laboratories |
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Reproduction Strong-Ovington Apparatus The pioneers of Tesla Coils for electrotherapeutics; Dr. Frederick Finch Strong was inventor of the glass vacuum electrode and noted physician, and Earle Ovington - then a student at MIT, employee of Thomas Edison, and later the first US Air Mail Pilot. Both men crossed all boundaries being admired equally by Tesla, Edison, and Elihu Thomson. |
ca. 1901 - 1908 Dr. Frederick Finch Strong and Earle Lewis Ovington Electro-Radiation Company |
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Resurrecting Forgotten Tesla Technologies For New Discoveries... |
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15kV 60mA Twin Pancake Coil System A concept originally developed by Thomas Burton Kinraide and Howard Jackson, this apparatus uses a thin spiral of wire heavily insulated with wax and rosin. When operating the coils with very high voltages, a multitude of electrical effects can be produced, some similar to those produced by a Static Electric Machine. |
ca. 1904 - 1908 Swett & Lewis Company Boston, Massachusetts |
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One Kilowatt Capacity
Twin Pancake Coil System
Concept originally developed by the pioneer of Tesla Pancake Coils, Thomas |
ca. 1897 - 1902 Spring Park Laboratory, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts |
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