Hours with the ghosts, or, Nineteenth century witchcraft : illustrated investigations into the phenomena of spiritualism and theosophy (1897)
Evans, Henry Ridgely, 1861-1949, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Chicago : Laird & Lee · leaf 119
that I am enabled to affirm so con-clusively the existence of this force. Prof. Crookesexperiments were conducted, as he says, in the fulllight, and in the presence of witnesses, among them Il6 PHYSICAL PHENOMENA. being the famous English barrister, Sergeant Cox,and the astronomer, Dr. Huggins.… … FIG. 8. CROOKES APPARATUS. Crookes to test this psychic force consisted of a ma-hogany board 36 inches long by9^ inches wide and 1inch thick. A strip of mahogany was screwed on atone end, to* form a foot, the length being equal to thewidth of the board. This end of the board was placedon a table,…
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891 · Spiritualism · Theosophy
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