The true history of the ghost : and all about metempsychosis / by Professor Pepper.

  • John Henry Pepper
Date:
1890
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Credit: The true history of the ghost : and all about metempsychosis / by Professor Pepper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    The engraved silver glass plate moved through a groove in the woodwork at the top of the chamber, and was sup- ported below on a beautiful carriage, the wheels of which were covered with vulcanised indiarubber rings, and moved e f A B C D, the Plate Glass ; e straight lines engraved on silvered side and gradually increasing in thickness from e \.o f. on a tramway below the floor of the room, perpendicularly. The glass could be made to slide at an angle of forty-five degrees, and as it always made a rumbling noise while moving, the music of the band concealed that defect. The ground plan of the apartment is shown on the opposite page. Some idea of the cost of making a full-sized apparatus, with hangings and curtains and engraved glass, may be gathered from the fact that the author's outfit for Australia with a certain number of dresses cost ^£2,2] 12s. id. Whilst the author was travelling through Australia Mr. James Walker, with his great inventive genius, made a further improvement, by which the concealed figure at k was done away with, and the whole apartment thrown open