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20 Years and Countless
Centuries...
The Electrotherapy Museum was formed in the mid 1990s by Jeff Behary, a
dissident scientist and underground artist living in South Florida.
It closed in 2016 with over 180,000 original files and photos and over one
million YouTube videos watched. The website averaged over 7 million
hits per year, and at the height of activity was referenced over 250,000
times on Google by various sources.
Jeff and his museum were known around the world and his unusual private
collection received over 100 visitors a year from around the world -
mainly authors, research scientists, film and television crews, and fellow
artists. The average visitor would stay 4-6 hours and was catered
with beer, alcohol, food, and entertainment - often until Midnight or
later - and had the ability to witness first-hand various experiments,
restorations, replications, and new scientific discoveries in an up-close
and personally-catered manner.
Jeff had a unique approach to history, medicine, and science:
namely, he didn't take political sides or money. As a dissident he
republished books which were banned, burned, or otherwise destroyed by
various government and private agencies. Many of the books he
hand-bound personally and distributed in Samizdat fashion with efforts of
educating the public using real history uncensored and as raw as
possible. Along the way he replicated many dangerous
experiments, putting only himself at risk to document first-hand the
sides of history no one dared to witness in centuries. This made him
both famous and infamous around the globe and embraced in very elite
circles of scientists, curators, government agencies, film producers, and
surviving families of famous inventors.
In the scientific community Jeff replicated work with electrical
discharges that stands alone in the world today. He developed
special coil winding techniques and with an intricate combination of both
mechanical and electrical engineering was able to recreate diverse forms
of electricity that cannot be witnessed elsewhere but in his
laboratory. This work attracted the attention of top Geophysicists
and Lightning experts in the US.
His personal knowledge of antique electrical apparatus extends to well
over 500 machines. He restored the oldest X-Ray apparatus in the US
and in 2004 discovered the oldest high frequency coils made in the US in
1897. His collection includes over 6000 hand-drawn blueprints from
the 1920s and 30s and the world's largest collection of electrographs made
by X-Ray pioneer Thomas Burton Kinraide.
Jeff never charged admission for his museum and did all of the work
outside of a normal day job at a considerable expense. He received
generous donations from collectors and enthusiasts around the world and
expresses his sincerest thanks and gratitude to everyone who made it
possible. He is now enjoying a quiet life outside of the public eye
and wishes to pursue other interests.
His last acquisition was a personal scrapbook of electrotherapy pioneer
Frederick Finch Strong. It was Frederick's book High Frequency
Currents that inspired Jeff to open a museum, and the same book led
him on a 10-year treasure hunt involving electrical pioneer Thomas Burton
Kinraide. It combines many topics that Jeff was well-versed in over
the years - even quite personally in connection with these two individuals
- electricity, radiation, time, telepathy, spiritualism, and various
aspects of the occult.
Check out below to see some TV shows and movies featuring Jeff Behary
and the Electrotherapy Museum from around the world!
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Television
Programmes:
American Genius, National Geographic/Stephen David Productions (USA), 2015
Forever, ABC/Time Warner (USA), 2014
Strangest Weather On Earth Series II, Weather Channel (USA) Channel 4
(UK), 2014
Strangest Weather On Earth, Weather Channel (USA) Channel 4 (UK), 2013
Mysteries At The Museum 2, Travel Channel (USA), 2012
Giants Of The Light And Shadow, NHK TV (Japan), 2010
Modern Marvels “Mad Electricity”, History Channel (USA), 2008
Somewhere Out There, Pilot Episode, Toronto (Canada), 2007
Disinformation TV, (UK), 2001
Movies / Films:
Struck By Lightning, Wenneker TV (Netherlands), 2012
All About Tesla: The Research, Maxim Films (Germany), 2007
Miracle Events Unbelievable, Fuji Film, (Japan), 2003
Music Video:
Snowhite (Freezing Skin), Snovonne (Slovakia), 2013
Books:
Capacity for Murder, Bernadette Pajer, Poised Pen Press, 2013
Reminiscences Of A Birdman, Robert Campbell, Living History Press, 2009
Quack! Tales of Medical Fraud, Bob McCoy, Santa Monica Press, 2001
Magazines and Periodicals:
New Glass Review 37, Corning Museum Of Glass, 2016
Palm Beach Senior/Boomer, Cover story, November 2012
Colors (Italy), 2012
Aunt Minnie Radiology News (Worldwide Web), 2011
Les Nouvelles Esthetiques (USA, Canada), 2010
Flyer Magazine (UK), 2002
Sail Magazine (USA), 2002
Art Exhibits:
Linda Matney Gallery X-RA*DI*ANCE, Curated by Lita Tirak, Williamsburg VA,
2013
Public Lectures published on DVD:
The Quest For Kinraide, Long Island, NY, 2011
History of High Frequency Coils in Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, 2011
Real History Of Electrotherapy, Seattle, WA, 2007
150th Anniversary of Nikola Tesla, Long Island, NY, 2006
Redefining Tesla Technologies, Salt Lake City, UT, 2005
Turn Of The Century Discoveries, Washington DC , 2004
Radio Interview:
“Questions Questions”, BBC Radio (United Kingdom), 2005
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