The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com ![]() ELECTROGRAPHY by JEFF BEHARY ![]() "Electrography" - A process to make Electric Autographs on film ![]() The process was perfected by Thomas Burton Kinraide in the 1890s ![]() It is used to study the minute details of electrical discharges... ![]() All of these images were created in Jeff Behary's laboratory... ![]() ...a recreation of Kinraide's Spring Park Laboratory. ![]() Reproductions of Kinraide's machines were used to generate the electricity... ![]() ...They were built by hand using 1890s materials and technologies... ![]() ...often with little more than intuition and a few brief passages from the past... ![]() The hearts of the machines are specially constructed Tesla Coils... ![]() Kinraide's original electric apparatus were developed and sold as powerful X-Ray machines... ![]() ...They were the first practical apparatus to produce voltages and currents powerful enough to X-Ray the human torso... ![]() The story of Kinraide inspired us to go to Jamaica Plain, Mass... ![]() ...there we found Kinraide's laboratory... ![]() ...underground, hidden beneath his 25-room Victorian mansion "Ravenscroft"... ![]() ...A century later, and his legacy lives on... ![]() We preserve hundreds of his original electric discharge photos... ![]() They can be found at www.electrotherapymuseum.com ![]() Jeff Behary continues to recreate Kinraide's experiments... ![]() ...and the work of other forgotten inventors... ![]() Nikola Tesla, Elihu Thomson, Earle Ovington, Frederick Finch Strong, Thomas Stanley Curtis, ... ![]() ...all electrical wizards of their time... ![]() ...lost in time, but hopefully not forgotten forever... ![]() with the help of The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum. (C) Jeff Behary - 12. April 2008 |