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Frank Jones
Fortunately we have over .023% of
Frank's collection on this website.
No one would
live long enough to browse it online, in any case! |
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Tesla Memorial
Society, Inc.
William Terbo, Tesla's Grand-Nephew,
Executive of the Official Tesla Memorial Society,
the oldest and most respected Tesla organization in the United
States. |
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Tesla Technology Research www.teslatechnologyresearch.com
Others may say they make the biggest or
best Tesla Coils:
Bill Wysock actually does. |
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PV Scientific
www.arcsandsparks.com
The greatest [and only] source for the
highest quality Static Electric Machines,
Induction Coils, Crookes Tubes, Vintage Radios, Leyden Jars, etc. |
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Zahi
N. Hakim, MD
Zahi is an amazing collector of early
radiography tubes and related accessories.
He has some real rarities on his website -
www.earlytubes.com. He
is a retired
radiologist, and I greatly admire his work in preserving the rich
history of Röntgen Rays. |
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John
“Grizzy” Grzywacz
OSHA National Training Institute icon and
senior faculty member, Professor "Grizzy" is
the BEST Electrical Safety Trainer in the country. He is also
an avid Tesla enthusiast and
collector.
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Dr. Daniel Cuscela - www.vintagexraymuseum.org
Dan is a local friend that has one of the most
impressive libraries I have ever seen, and a fine collection
of rare floor model machines of massive proportions. The
largest antique electrostatic machine in the
country, now fully operational - a 24 plate Frank S Betz Toepler-Holtz
X-Ray machine...a 10kW Snook
Interrupter-less X-Ray machine, a vast collection of glass plate
X-Rays and obscure McIntosh floor model machines just to name
"a few". A sincere doctor who cares about
history...that's one of a kind! |
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Bob
Blaske - http://grandpabobbooks.com/
Imagine having a teacher in
middle school that actually taught you something. My first
TV appearance was in middle school, and was the result of this
man: Mr. Blaske. He taught me BASIC computer
programming, and in no time I was programming C and assembly
language at 14 years old. Bob has written an amazing
series of books on "old Florida". Check out his
website and have a look at the Queen Of The Everglades. Even
Mejla reads this book! |
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Gerrit
Kemerink
Gerrit is a retired medical
physicist with a sincere interest in early radiology. He has
written numerous publications on X-Rays and has beautifully
replicated the work of early pioneers. In doing this work he
is offering new insight from a modern perspective that has been desperately
lacking for more than a century.
Please keep up the good work, Gerrit - it is priceless! |
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Gerhard
Kütterer
Gerhard is an amazing author
and historian on early X-Ray pioneers. He is compiling a colossal
book of important people in X-Ray history from around the world
- I have seen some drafts of this impressive masterpiece, it
is something to treasure for all X-Ray collectors, historians, and
enthusiasts. |
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Robert D.
Campbell
Bob is an amazing person. He found in a
box of glass negatives the entire life of Earle
Ovington. Over a decade later, he pieced together that amazing
life in the most spectacular
modern book I've ever read. It is a treasure chest of rare
photos and text never seen anywhere else. |
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Harry Goldman
Harry had the first Tesla Coil website 20
years before the internet, TCBA News.
He is a Tesla historian, author, collector, educator, and builds some
beautiful Tesla Coils!
Harry wrote an incredible biography that everyone needs:
Kenneth Strickfaden - Dr. Frankenstein's Electrician (McFarland,
2005) |
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Brian
Foley
Brian has been a great
friend of ours from the north east. He has generously
donated
many machinist tools, wax, and countless useful items for
experiments. In fact, many
projects on this site would probably have never been started if it
wasn't for his surprise
packages. While many Americans are content to scrap anything
they find, Brian finds
a use for it all - we all need to follow this example!
He has a fantastic knowledge of CNC machines (and even builds his
own),
and certainly knows his way around Tesla Coiling! |
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The
Mid America Science Museum
Richard Mathias commissioned Bill Wysock to build an even
higher output reproduction of the
Griffith Observatory Tesla Coil. This earned him a Guinness
Record for the largest Conical Tesla Coil
in the world. Richard and his wife demonstrate this coil and
a smaller portable conical coil as part of
their "Sermon From Science" program. |
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Charles F. Brush
When I think of the name Charles Brush, two
people come to mind. One is the famous inventor who
created magnificent arc lamps. The other is his grandson, who
fortunately preserves such magical
treasures. One of perhaps the greatest scientific studies ever
made was performed in the modern
Brush laboratory: Furby Stress Testing. For those who
haven't seen this video, your life will be
forever changed once you do. Pick yourself up off the floor
after watching it, and be sure to visit
his historical treasures on the site too! |
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Peter Barvoets
Photography Galleries (Lookseeseen)
Philosophical Apparatus
Peter is a great collector, and introduced me to a Pancake Coil
chapter from a book that
would change my life: High Frequency Apparatus by Thomas
Stanley Curtis
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Finn
Hammer
From the land of Finsen, Poulsen, Pedersen,
and Aakvavit comes one of the
greatest modern Tesla Coil builders, Finn Hammer. |
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Alastair Wright
Alastair is a well-known collector from the UK of Violet Rays,
Diathermy Machines, and
Vacuum Discharge Tubes. He has put together some fantastic
YouTube videos of his
collection. |
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Historische
Glasapparate und Lehrmittel
Lutz Neumann is perhaps the best glass blower in the world.
I've seen his restorations and
reproductions of Geissler and Crookes Tubes, and feel they are
honestly better than the originals. |
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Henk Dijkstra
Henk has a wonderful site dedicated to
Cathode Ray and Vacuum Discharge Tubes. Geissler Tubes,
Crookes Tubes, X-Ray Tubes, Rotators, and Induction Coils. |
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David Genser
1957 - 2008
David was an extraordinary collector that
we all have fond memories of. He did something
unprecedented in medical collecting history: He restored
machines in an authentic way
and managed to make them better than the originals, often to
painstaking lengths. His work
was clearly admirable and nothing short of spectacular.
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Bert Hickman c/o
Stoneridge Engineering
Bert uses high voltage engineering to
create masterpieces
that would otherwise seem impossible: Captured Lightning in
acrylic and Shrunken Quarters! Not to mention he is an avid
Tesla Coil builder. "Wrecking havoc with electrons for over 40
years"...
That says it all! |
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Bob McCoy
Bob was a fantastic collector and curator
of The Museum Of Questionable Medical Devices.
I helped him & Shawne Fitzgerald write a chapter in "Quack!
Tales Of Medical Fraud" on Violet
Ray devices. On retiring, Bob donated his huge collection to
the Science Museum Of Minnesota.
We tried to borrow a few of the devices after for the Steve Harvey
show, and they sent us an $8000
invoice to borrow a few items. The episode was cancelled
immediately. It was an unreal and sad ending. |
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Le Pappilon
Vert
and
Jiffy Coil
Michael and Evita have Renaissance-like
hobbies, the greatest of which is distilling
Absinthe using original pre-ban recipes. At 144 proof, it is
quite a wonderful liquid,
and some of the best I've ever had. Evita designs
corsets, and Michael
builds Tesla Coils as well. |
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Impulselabs
Eric is a great machinist who makes some
wonderful Tesla Coils with vintage parts & components. |
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Dany
K
Awesome website and YouTube videos in Czech of classic high
voltage experiments.
Induction Heating, Tesla Coils, High Voltage, Fluoroscopy / X-Rays.
Very nice work. |
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Alton
Smith
Alton has an amazing collection of Crookes and Geissler tubes and
sells radio tubes for collectors at reasonable prices! |