The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum
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Tesla "Pancake Coils":  Redefining Tesla Technologies


 
                            
Thomas Burton Kinraide (1864 - 1927)
Pioneer of Pancake Style Coils
 
Earliest Kinraide Coil (ca. 1897)
14" Diameter Pancake Coil found in Kinraide's Laboratory (Left)
 Testing with very low power (Right)
 
Patented Kinraide Coil (ca. 1897-1899)
The Original Patented Kinraide High Frequency Induction Coil - Flat Spirals sandwiched
together with glass rods with flatten ends, tied together with silk.  The whole assembly was
heated and poured with beeswax and rosin as an insulating compound.
 
 
"Kinraide Coils" (1897-1901)
Original Coils from Kinraide's Jamaica Plain Laboratory.  Post June 1901 they were
officially manufactured by Swett & Lewis Company under the supervision of Howard Jackson.
 

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