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The Turn of The
Century Electrotherapy Museum
https://www.electrotherapymuseum.org
Thomas Burton Kinraide Archive
A Last Look at
Ravenscroft - 38 Spring Park Avenue, Jamaica Plain MA
The Winter Home of Thomas Burton Kinraide
Ravenscroft
Recovered: 2025
The Progressive
Development Of The Kinraide High Frequency Coil
Rum-Running: Restoration of
Thomas Burton Kinraide's Scotch(?) Barrels
Thomas Burton Kinraide - Excerpt:
Timeline of events in his life
New Generation
Kinraide and Tesla CAD drawings
Replicating
Kinraide Coils step by step...part one...
Demoulding
the original burned out Kinraide Coil
Re-Moulding
the original Kinraide Coil ebonite form
New 14"
Kinraide Coils for studying electrical discharges
and replicating upper atmospheric phenomena
 
Restoring original and
replicating several Kinraide Coils
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Endless Thanks to Kevin in
Portland, OR for rescuing and crating an original Kinraide Coil
Here are the uncrating photos along with some repair photos, making
missing parts for the spark gap,
and briefly testing it (I've waited 30 years to get one this complete!)!
New CAD models and
renderings of direct current Kinraides and early prototypes
October
Photos:
Adam Hilger Quartz Ultraviolet Spectroscope
Kinraide Patent Model Replica of Variable Inductive Reactance Coil
Early 1898 Replica of Direct Current single coil Kinraide Coil with motor
driven Interrupter
Youtube Video of
1898 Kinraide Coil and replica 1901 Kinraide Coil and 1905 Kinraide Coil
with Dr. Frederick Finch Strong Spark Gap
Engraving Copper Book
Covers for Museum Library Kinraide Books
Kinraide Motor Driven
Brake - Self-Interrupter
Kinraide Coil
Replicas - High Resolution Sparks
Kinraide
Coil Replicas: Demoulding The Original Coil
Making
Copper Cover Books of Kinraide's Life and Inventions
Making
the Kinraide Coil Capacitor
Making
the cedar boxes to house the Kinraide Coils
Moulding
Replica Coil Forms
Making
The Copper Jugs for the Water-Cooled Spark Gaps
Making
Replica Nameplates for the Kinraide Coils
Making
the Primary Coils of the Kinraide Coils
Replicating
Ravenscroft / Spring Park Laboratory from 38 Spring Park Ave in Jamaica
Plain
Casting
and Replicating The Original Water-Cooled Copper Quenched Spark Gap
Replicating
the original discharge terminals to the Kinraide Coils
Replicating
the original high voltage transformers from the Kinraide Coils
Replica
Kinraide Coil with original design of water cooled copper plate quenched
spark gap
Replica
Kinraide Coil with improved design of water-cooled spark gap from
Electro-Radiation Company
Restoring
the DC ball motor for a new Direct Current Replica Kinraide Coil
Replica 1891 Tesla High Frequency Induction Coil with 8 sections in the
secondary coil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZBCBvVdp4M
1891 Tesla High Frequency Induction Coil of improved design (only 2
secondary coil sections)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5rZEFMuUso
How to tune a Tesla Coil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpNSaB_8FSQ
Three replica Kinraide Coils, from early DC motor driven break to 2
commercial AC version replicas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HS65fb3Zgo
Casting pancake coils in wax
Unboxing an original Kinraide Coil
https://www
Kinraide Coil Restoration, a Day in Life...
https://www.youtube.com/horts/TQnJMI70Q1I
CAD renderings of Kinraide Coils
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BDkj8SsyB6M
DC motor to self-interrupter, Kinraide patent design
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w_lwWc6YsBY
    
A. Personal Exhibits
    
B. Glass Plate Negatives
    
C. Electric Discharge Reproductions
   
D. Kinraide Coils
   
E. Reproductions
   
F. Movies
   
G. Patents
   
H. Reference
I.
New materials in 2025
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| Name |
Size |
URL |
| Thomas Burton Kinraide,
Family Photo |
4305228 |
https://archive.org/details/TBKPhoto |
| Electrician Kinraide's
Novel Ideas On the Creation Of The Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets |
41589638 |
https://archive.org/details/article_202312 |
| Thomas Burton Kinraide |
96142760 |
https://archive.org/details/tbk-early-prototype-coils |
| Patents of inventor TB
Kinraide. Some missing from Germany and the UK...but unable to
retrieve them currently |
148770114 |
https://archive.org/details/thomas-burton-kinraide-patents |
| Thomas Burton Kinraide |
170794603 |
https://archive.org/details/tbk-press-and-obituary |
| Thomas Burton Kinraide
archive |
193928623 |
https://archive.org/details/tbk-kinraide-coil-restored |
| Kinraide Newspapers - 1900
- 1927 |
327365138 |
https://archive.org/details/kinraide-newspapers-2025_202503 |
| Sandwich Independent
newspapers mentioning Thomas Burton Kinraide |
382085279 |
https://archive.org/details/sandwich-independent |
| Thomas Burton Kinraide |
553944287 |
https://archive.org/details/tbk-coil-restoration |
| Thomas Burton Kinraide |
1360616655 |
https://archive.org/details/tbk-2010-advenure |
| Discovering Thomas Burton
Kinraide's winter home Ravenscroft 29 April 2005 |
1884459640 |
https://archive.org/details/tbk-jp |
| Thomas Burton Kinraide
archive |
2499739725 |
https://archive.org/details/tbk-photos |
| Spark discharge photographs |
9522813 |
https://archive.org/details/tbk-graham-page-1c |
| From Century Magazine, July
1902 |
14324274 |
https://archive.org/details/curious-electrical-forms |
| Glass plate negatives of
Thomas Burton Kinraide with descriptions in pencil |
171366494 |
https://archive.org/details/thomas-burton-kinraide-writing |
| Patentshrift Thomas Burton
Kinraide Nr 108855 Selbstunterbrecher 12 Juli 1898 |
14350890 |
https://archive.org/details/patentshrift-thomas-burton-kinraide-nr-108855-selbstunterbrecher-12-juli-1898 |
| (C) Jeff Behary 2019, Taken
from the original glass plate negatives. |
988149522 |
https://archive.org/details/KinraideKeely |
| Archive of electrical
inventor and X-Ray pioneer Thomas Burton Kinraide (1864-1927) . This
version formatted to print on 8.5 x 11 paper. Table of
Contents: Page 2 High Resolution Spark Photos Page 263: 18" x 22"
Posters from the TBK Family Page 401: Colour scans 8" x 10" Page
537: 5x7 Damaged Negatives Page 540: 5x5 Damaged Negatives Page 587: 8x10
Damaged Negatives Page 817: 11x14 Damaged Negatives Page 870: Curious
Electrical Forms Page 880: Alrededor Del Mundo Page 883: Behary Electrical
Discharge Photos Page 1100: Kelly McJilton Photos of Behary Apparatus Page
3078: Kinraide Glass Plates Developed in 2005 Page 3167: The Kinraide Coil
(Version 1) Page 3187: The Kinraide Coil (Version 2) Page 3213: Coils and X-Ray
Tubes Page 3248: The Jackson High Frequency Coil Page 3275: X-Ray and High
Frequency Coils Page 3296: The Cyclone Coil Page 3304: Static Machines, X-Ray
Supplies, and Electro-Therapeutical Apparatus Page 3328: Deeds Page 3347:
Newspaper Clippings Page 3355: Ads, Misc. Articles Page 3422: Letters from
fellow pioneers Page 3524: Excerpts from Frederick Finch Strong Page 3556:
John Worrell Keely Excerpts Page 3608: The Fourth Dimension Page 3648:
Patents Page 3756: Solidworks Renderings of Kinraide Coil Page 3777: Jamaica
Plain and Salem MA Urban Exploration Page 3943: Kinraide Family Page 3990:
Jamaica Plain, First Trip Page 4362: Kinraide Coil found by Che Cooper Page
4486: Kinraide Induction Coil Replica Page 4496: Original Kinraide Coil
Restoration Page 4664: Replica Jackson Coil Page 4887: DC Kinraide Coil from
Grogan Auction Page 4924: Kinraide Coil and Family Page 4944: X-RA*DI*ANCE
Art Exhibit Williamsburg VA Page 4971: X-RA*DI*ANCE REDUX Art Exhibit
Williamsburg 2 Page 4995: RGF Environmental Group Electro-Mechanical Museum
The author extends thanks to the Kinraide family, Frank Jones, Kelly
McJilton, John "Grizzy", Daniel Cuscela, the Tesla
family, friends
and fellow collectors and collaborators, Astrid, and fellow coworkers at RGF
Environmental Group. |
2899637900 |
https://archive.org/details/QuestForKinraide5026pgs |
| Large format photos taken
in a brief occurrence with the Kinraide family. From exhibits of the
late 1800s and early 1900s. |
413399683 |
https://archive.org/details/KinraidePosters |
| High frequency coil pioneer |
13986901 |
https://archive.org/details/thomas-burton-kinraide-german-patents |
| World-Astounding Electrical
Discoveries Made by Thomas Burton Kinraide of Jamaica Plain |
1162092 |
https://archive.org/details/testtbk |
| Short video about Thomas
Burton Kinraide |
372121789 |
https://archive.org/details/quest-for-kinraide |
| Summer home of Thomas
Burton Kinraide on Spectacle Pond, burned to the ground sometime in the early
40s. |
1569425 |
https://archive.org/details/the-hermitage-0001 |
| Misc. clippings relating to
Thomas Burton Kinraide |
249669938 |
https://archive.org/details/kinraide-newspaper-clippings |
| Kinraide Coils |
215719506 |
https://archive.org/details/swett-lewis-company-high-frequency-coils |
| X-ray Pioneer and inventor |
48816653 |
https://archive.org/details/thomas-burton-kinraide-photos-from-don-harris |