Collection of Glass Plate Negatives of Electrical Discharges made by Thomas Burton Kinraide, including the last-known photos of the infamous Keely Motor
Collection of Glass Plate Negatives of Electrical Discharges made by Thomas Burton Kinraide
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Collection of Glass Plate Negatives of Electrical Discharges made by Thomas Burton Kinraide, including the last-known photos of the infamous "Keely Motor"Entry/Object ID
2026.27.1Description
Thomas Burton Kinraide's work represents the largest collection of original electrographs in the world. They were found by Jeff Behary in 2005 in hidden rooms beneath Kinraide's mansion and winter home named "Ravenscroft". The house originally contained the Spring Park Laboratory, a finely appointed machine shop, dark room, chemistry lab, and a hidden ballroom along with many hidden rooms originally blasted out of granite rock using dynamite in the early 1890s. Kinraide made hundreds of these glass "autographs" of electrical discharges on 5x7, 7x7, 7x9, 8x10, and 11x14 glass plate X-Ray negatives using the electrical discharges from his Kinraide Coils and early prototype high frequency coils as the light source.Collection
Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy MuseumCategory
X-Rays