Nathan Stubblefield Earth battery/Self Generating Induction Coil Replications

[canada765]

Everyone sorry for the late reply. I'm still on vacation and only have limited access to the internet. Yes I did get to the museum and had somewhat limited success; as Bill stated, there is no earth battery's or even any of his wireless telephone inventions there. (This is consistent with what I previously read that NS destroyed most of his inventions before his death ). There was some equipment of his but limited to very few items. I asked if they had any more of his stuff tucked away but was told "not that they were aware of".

I see the reference above to a trunk, is this the trunk that is in the museum? There was a trunk of NS's there but I did not attempt to open it (I assumed it was empty but I may have been mistaken). Of the items that were there (I have some photos I will post ), some photos were not so great since they were in a display case and it messed up with the camera's focus.
One photo was of a "telegraph sounder and telegraph key", another of a "vibrating telephone", and a "telephone ringer" that was used by him. There were 2 photos of some wire, one "coil wire, wound and insulated" from 1881 and another "early transformer box and coil" with green insulated wire (or so it looks). I could not tell what was used for insulation and I did not ask to get inside the case
(they may or may not have allowed it) but not sure I could have told what the insulation was in any event. All of his patents (documents) were there and other people donated used radio equipment but none belonged to NS or was from that period. I took some photos of some of the documents and need to go through them to see if there is anything else of benefit. Since I can only post photos of 50K in size I will post the photos of the wire and I will have to post individually. Next week I will be going back home and if there is more there I could possibly drop by again but I would need to make sure there is something in that trunk if that is what you are referring to?

Thanks
Steve

[canada765]

Descritpion read "coil wire, wound and insulated , used in 1881"

[canada765]

"early transformer box and coil"

[canada765]

"telegraph sounder and telegraph key used by NS"

[canada765]

"vibrating telephone"...looks like a crank to an early telephone to me but not sure....