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



Museum Collection:  1600 - 1900
Static Electric Machines and Franklenism
 

Hannah's static hair!


Late 1700s Cuthbertson Static Electric Machine for Medical Use



1811 Thomas Browne Static Machine of Improved Design

Benjamin Pike Jr. Static Machine, an early American instrument maker of exceptional quality.
This machine likely dates to the mid 1820s...

A static discharge detonator pillar typically used to ignite explosives.  Formerly of the Charles Hummel Collection.

Carre Dielectric Machine and early French Static Machine; Early 1780s/90s Static Machine found in a barn near Philadelphia (Franklin's?  Priestley's?)

Cris is not afraid of static... I think her husband Bob might have been hiding, lol...


Sultry Sam taking 250kV of Positive electricity from the 1903 Frank S. Betz 24-plate Toepler-Holtz that Dan Cuscela and I painstaking restored.

Cheeky Belly, Our local belly dancer.  Photo by Keith.

Leyden Jars and Discharger


Early 1800s Jones of London Static Machine

Early Philadelphia Static Machine, late 1700s


French Static Machine


Carre Dielectric Machine - The first machine to use electrical influence combined with friction


A homemade tribute to Francis Hauksbee - By shaking this in a dark room the mercury glows from Tribo-Luminescence 


Sparks from Frank S Betz 1903 Machine - Positive on the left, Negative on the right

Philip Atkinson Static Electric Machine from the mid 1880s, sold by McIntosh Battery & Optic Company


Voltana Wimshurst Machine from Germany




Soviet Wimshurst Machine for Universities 

Birtman Toepler-Holtz Machine

McIntosh Laboratory Static Machine for Universities

The Controller and internal parts of Snook X-Ray/Rectifier


Stanley Static Machine, one of the first machines put on the market by GA Frei for X-Ray work.  It's the only one we know of.
It has a gear and runs at very high speeds using an ebonite disk instead of glass.  Frei claimed you couldn't get an X-Ray burn using this machine;
he was wrong.  Elihu Thomson, one of his only early marketing rivals, burned his finger purposely with one of the machines proving it was just longer exposures needed...
and that X-Rays from static machines were not safe, just that the action needed more time than with induction coils or high frequency coils.
Endless thanks to Frank Jones for giving me this extemely rare machine.

Late 1700s Static Electric Machine

Benjamin Franklin's Original Static Electric Machine

Carré Static Machine - James W. Queen & Co.

Replicating and Restoring Leather Pads for
Frictional Static Electric Machines

Restoring Carre Machine with videos

Carré Machine Sparks

Ode to Otto von Guericke and Francis Haukesbee:
Spherical Globe Frictional Static Electric Machine

Clamp On Winter Machine!

Electrophorus and Winter Machine

Restoring Collectors / Dischargers for Dan's
Frank S Betz 12 Plate Floor Model Static Machine

McIntosh Toepler Holtz Machine

1885 McIntosh Atkinson Frictional Static Machine

Shinn Double Toepler Holtz Machine

From the National Science Museum in Maynooth Ireland!

Van Houten & Ten Broek Floor Model
Holtz / Wimshurst Static Electric Machine

Wimshurst Machine from the Collection Of Andreas Krieger

 Feature Exhibition:
 Dodd & Struthers Static Electric   
Machines

 Feature Exhibition: Shinn Static Electric Machine

 Feature Exhibition: Moore Apparatus

 Early Static Electric Machines

Electrostatic Meter

 Static Electric Machines Gallery

Long Island New York Photos:
Static Machines from PV Scientific

Electricity Is Poison!  Electro-Static Eliminator

Small Replica Nairne Static Machine

Works In Progress:
Frictional Static Machine Collector;
Globe Static Machine;
Small Replica Nairne Static Machine

Otto von Guericke / Francis Hauksbee 16" Diameter Globe Static Machine

Piffard Hyperstatic Transformer:
Tesla Coil powered by a Static Electric Machine

Making Toepler Holtz Static Machine Disks

Making a Toepler Holtz Machine

Toepler Holtz Static Induction Apparatus
For Treating Nervous Disorders

Piffard Hyperstatic Transformer Experiments
with Toepler Holtz and Scheidel Western
Tesla Coil

Piffard Hyperstatic Experiments 2

Toepler Holtz Static Electric Machine for Electrostatic Experiments

Winter Frictional Electrostatic Machine Experiments

YouTube:  Winter Frictional Electrostatic Machine Movie

15" Disk Winter Machine Reproduction

15" Disk Winter Machine Collectors

Restoring Collectors / Dischargers for Dan's
Frank S Betz 12 Plate Floor Model Static Machine

Winter Frictional Electrostatic Machine Experiments

Experiments - making 1800s rubber...

15" Disk Winter Machine Reproduction

15" Disk Winter Machine Collectors

Automatic Electrophorus
Wool / Acrylic Frictional Static Electric Machine

Replica Carre Dielectric Machine

YouTube video of 15" Winter Machine Replica

Simplified Acrylic / Wool Frictional Disk Static Machine

Toepler Holtz Machine for Static Experiments

Static Machine made from Wood, Wool, and CPVC

36" Static Machine

36" Frictional Static Machine

Static Crown Breeze Electrode

Experimental Leyden Phial

Featured Restoration:
Frank S. Betz 24-Plate Toepler Holtz Machine

Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
Restoring 24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine

Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine, with Leyden Jars
(Video)

Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine, without Leyden Jars
(Video)

Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
One Year Of Restoration Photos
Page One

Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
One Year Of Restoration Photos
Page Two

Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
Jeff's Spark Photos, Week 1

Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
General Whole Body Electrification Video

Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
Testing a Helium Filled Tube

Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
General Sparks from machine - 12"

Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
First Ultra-Violet Photograph

Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
Amazing Ultra-Violet Photograph
of Doorknob Capacitors - .00067 mfd @ 120 kVDC

Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
Amazing Ultra-Violet Photograph
Full Resolution

Featured Collector Daniel Cuscela:  
24 Plate Toepler Holtz Machine:
Jeff's Random Pics Discharging
Doorknob Capacitors - .00067 mfd @ 120 kVDC

Further Reading:

An Account Of The Effects Of Electricity In Paralytick Cases
Benjamin Franklin, December 1757

Experiments on Electricity Made At Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin, 1769     * Rare  *

Electrical Experiments of Benjamin Franklin, Part 2

A Complete Treatise On Electricity
Tiberius Cavallo - 1795 (4th Ed) 

Electricity or Ethereal Fire Considered
T. Gale, (Medical Electricity, 1802) 

ORIGINAL Electricity or Ethereal Fire Considered
T. Gale, (Medical Electricity, 1802) 

Electricity and Its Recent Applications:
Edward Trevert:
Töpler Static Machine and Induction Coil Plans 

Electrical Instrument-Making For Amateurs - S R Bottone

Physical Technics Of Practical Instructions For
Making Experiments In Physics And The Construction
Of Physical Apparatus With The Most Limited Means
Dr. J. Frick

L E Knott Apparatus Catalogue Excerpts

Static Electric Experiments

Electrical Instrument-Making For Amateurs - S R Bottone

Physical Technics Of Practical Instructions For
Making Experiments In Physics And The Construction
Of Physical Apparatus With The Most Limited Means
Dr. J. Frick

Shutts & Walters Co. Catalogue

Electrical Influence Machines - John Gray

Electric Spark Photos for Salesmanship

Dinner with William Benham Snow

Crookes Tubes And Static Machines -
S. H. Monell - Feb. 6, 1897

Keystone Electric Company Electro-therapeutic
Appliance Catalogue

Letters between Dr. W. E. Steavenson
and his publisher concerning his book
about Medical Electricity...

Cox Cavendish Catalogue of X-Ray Apparatus and Electro-
Medical Apparatus and Allied Apparatus of every description.

 Static Electricity from Medical Electricity and Röntgen Rays

L. E. Knott Influence Machine  

The Jackson Coil Catalog  

Early Static Engravings from Wellcome Library, Europeana.eu

Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Edward Nairne;
Excerpts from Nairne Patent (Medical Static Machine)

Plante's Rhesostatic Machine and Lichtenberg Figures