The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum
 http://www.electrotherapymuseum.org

What's New in 2025D



 
BIG NEWS!  Maggie Gyllenhaal's new movie The Bride! Trailer
This movie has over 6000 pounds of original museum artifacts on set!  We're so excited!
Restoring original and replicating several Kinraide Coils


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.youtube.com/watch?v=zf_8hiL535k&pp=0gcJCTwKAYcqIYzv
My year 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5KCCAyNuvw
Kinraide Coil Restoration, a Day in Life...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmhMBRW87Sw
Frank S. Betz Toepler-Holtz Static Electric Machine, 24 plates, from Daniel Cuscela

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/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








Last photos of 2025