Re: The NEW Tesla Museum

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hi Jeff, All,

Great web site! This was really a lot of fun to look around. I especially
liked the Tesla Coil section showing
the 200% closeup view of the wound secondary on the threaded form. You are
right, the spacing is fantastic. Sure
wish I had that lathe in my garage. Also, the static gap heat sinks are
really nice. I am leary that this gap
will be better than a G10/tungsten SRSG, but still, it is a good
heat-sinking scheme. Excellent and fun website!

Bart A.

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Tesla Museum by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-electrotherapymuseum-dot-com>
>
> Hello Tesla Enthusiasts,
>
> The NEW "Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum" has reopened after
> a year or so of reconstruction...and invites everyone for a tour !!
> It is perhaps the largest collection of antique Tesla Coils in the
> United States.
>
> http://www.electrotherapymuseum-dot-com
> contains over 1,500 files including detailed photos of hundreds of
> machines -
> including Tesla Coils, Induction Coils, Vacuum Discharge Tubes, X-
> Ray Coils,
> Diathermy Machines, Violet Ray devices, Carbon Arc Lamps, Static
> Electric Machines,
> Galvanic and Faradic Medical Batteries, Oudin Resonators, Ultra-violet
> Ozone and Irradiation
> Apparatus, and countless others...
>
> During the next month an additional 200 photos of EXTREMELY rare
> Tesla Coils from 1896 - 1910
> will be featured a new section entitled "Early Tesla Apparatus".
> Some of these coils are very unique:
>
> The Knott Apparatus from 1897- the first Tesla Coil ever placed on
> the market (for X-Ray use)
> The Kinraide Coil - 1901 - One of the most efficient Tesla Coils
> ever designed
>
> The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum will be offering reproductions
> of these two apparatus.
>
> As the curator of this museum, I have personally used and tested
> over 200 Tesla Coils from the Turn Of The
> Century.  From these designs I have made special Tesla Coil components
> that use the best technology from
> all of these machines.  Included are:
>
> * Secondary Coils with threaded coil forms.  These coils are virtually
> flawless in that coil spacing is perfect and finished coils
>   have windings that are extremely resistant to accidents, scrapes,
> loosening, or unwinding.  It allows space winding for
>   higher powered coils using large torroids, but also allows close-
> winding of within one or two TPI.
>
> * Self Cooling Stationary Spark Gaps.  These gaps replace rotary
> spark gaps as well as inferior gaps made from pipe fittings,
>  brass spheres, or tungsten carbide.  They are made of either 100%
> Tungsten or 2% thoriated Tungsten as per request of the buyer.
>  They have extemely long lives, and are based on early spark gap
> designs that were made to operate CONTINUOSLY.  The gaps
>  in the original machines that these are based on still function
> perfectly after 50, 75, or even 100 years.  Anyone who uses spark
> gaps
>  made of anything less than 2% thoriated tungsten is wasting their
> time and money.
>
> * Electromagnetically Interrupted Induction Coil Apparatus - The
> "Plug and Play" component for modern Tesla Coils.  Based on
>   the early X-Ray machines that were made to use both alternating
> and direct currents of varying voltages and supplies, these
>  lightweight induction coils use a massive tungsten interrupter and
> modern capacitors.  Their physical design remains faithful
>  to the early apparatus, allowing the user to build an authentic
> Tesla Coil using a non-electronical alternative to the standard
>  neon sign transformer / condenser / spark gap arrangement.  Pancake
> Style Coils originally used by Tesla and inventors of the
>  "Kinraide Coil" and other early portable X-Ray Apparatus were used
> in conjunction with these coils to produce 6-7" flames of electric
>  powerful enough to excite early X-Ray tubes drawing only a few amps
> of current from the mains.
>
> * Pancake Style Kinraide Coils - Multi-layer Tesla Coils approx.
> 1.5" tall x 8" in diameter that produce electrical flames rather
> than
>  simple spark discharges.  Their efficiency is unmatched, and even
> when excited with small apparatus drawing only a few amps
>  powerfully ionise the surrounding air and produce showers of loud
> crackling sparks not unlike a large X-Ray Coil.
>  When driven with kilowatt transformers, condensers, and spark gaps
> these coils produce electrical flames, which, when fine tuned
>  can produce the famous discharges noted in Tesla's lectures and
> others "as thick as a man's wrist".
>
> Please take some time and visit the website.  It is still under
constructions,
> with hundreds of additional
> photos being taken as you read this.   So visit often, and email
> me to be put on a mailing list when new and unique coils are
> added to the site from my vaults...as of 24. Jan 2001 the site has
> over 100,000 hits from alternative doctors, science enthusiasts,
> museums, collectors of the bizarre and unusual, and, fellow collectors.
> I thank everyone who visits.
>
> My best regards,
> Jeff Behary
> email: jeff_behary-at-hotmail-dot-com
> curator of The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum
> http://www.electrotherapymuseum-dot-com