New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-19
THOUGHT PHOTOGRAPHY NOW
EpIsoNs SON THINKS ME HAS DIS
COVERED A DEVICE TO Do
THE TRICK.
HIS IDEA IL THAT EXPANSION OR CONTRACTION
OF THE SKULL FOLLOWS EXCITING OR
DEPRESSING sENsAT1oNs-soME
QUEER EXPERIMENTS.

QUEER EXPERIMENTS.
Thought photography is the latest. Everybody
knows of course the great strides that electricity
has made in the last ten years. All OF them are
wonderful and marvellous. hut when II comes TO an
electrical device which can pilot ograph human
thought IL f. worth while stopping for moment 10
consider the subjec.. Thomas A Edison j.. W.
lioyos that he has made discovery which VIII re-
suit I'm a perfect electrical apparatus tor reprouuC
ing human thoughts as they are evolved IN t'e "'
man mind With such machine man WIZ ia"
travelled all over Europe VIII be abe 10 come o'0"
and sitting in the rear OF a hall. throw on '"h-
yas with the aid ~ his minds eye, everything ~
has seen The prisoner or trial for murder ma!
havc his thoughts photographed. and Il any S'en'H
connected with tho crime appear OF INV num-
guilt can thus be established. The anxious WI
Will he able 20 photograph her Sleeping HuS"""" .
thoughts. and find out whether ne mas fea"S W."
attending an important business conference or mas
been playing poker AT the club. And ~ on through
a long lis; Of uses which be made ot the ne"
invention
Mr. Edison Is trying to demonstrate thai wh'h d"
person with = normal mind thinks Of large Oh
fec, there results a swelling Of IN" head II '"'
mind is directed toward a small object OF course
the swelling amounts t. very little or nothing NJ a."
-norhaps only a slight vibration. Mr Edisor's one
cXpcrimont in the line OF thought photogra phy mas
led him to believe that he can accomplish reS"''S
whah will bc Of great service to the physician
Mechanical hypnotism can always be secured.
A description OF the process gone through win IN
this first experiment Is herewith given; In the ntS'
place a subject was secured who va known 20 oe
capable OF thinking In this case it was boy IN
his teens who was willing I'm Ord"' 10 aid me al
vanccmeni OF science to have NJ BAY ShAN'" ''''
TO his head This operation was necessary - h"
chemical cast g. used. which Is poured owl IN
head in LIQUID form the idea being TO get IN" cast
80 closely tight 20 every wrinkle. dem or uph'a''
of tho skull that the slightest swelling or contr"r-
tlou may be- noticed. on each sid" 81 inc '"S' ih'r'
ere two Httc disks There Is ais" or" on iop 81 III"
head over the spot which IN babies o. so so''-'h'
spot which remains soft In III" heads OF some l"''
vduals through ne Tnes disk ar" ~ tur" C Tbc
nected with chemica! disks 10y mean. ~ ~
outside disks are In turn connected win natery.
Expansion contraction iu the head OF M SUI
ieci is recorded on graduate src.ialy designed for
this kind OF work I MS disk and the graduate IN,
volye secret chemical ana electrical lrG ctSseS anu
actions OF which no one except Mt tHl~on mas
any knowieds". .,,..,-,,,
adjusted 10 the head o. the boy-an OF, nng hi'.h-
been made Tor tho eyes and niue hoeS ma M M
uostriis and cars-hc told 70 couccntrai' ms
mind on "a horsernce at the hnish. Nj tilsoH
described In glowing term. me rNcit'ihen, q, VIZ
with the rnultitude Yelling Ike MAD. the j"eh'i'
strainng every muse, tid a. IN ON, mn Tn
Indicator on the graduate Hrnt To- point "h'.H.
would have road boiling point" Then Mr. Edison
told his subject 20 turn his thoughts toward death
nd m9 9esi iol yms ;alTsn and 4rcs,l hi .ubc
imagine that d. vas peering over the ia INTO ~
face beneath This was a.no@i enough 10 ,n''h'
the boys hair stand end ana ms blood i-e"z'
i'll his veins ~ vas indicated Ola me EidHIal'
whi,h showed dropping 10 about th" zero pom,
Edison inclined to believe ti"t Nh,l ~.
mind was Orriri~d with thought "a" eye rene Ted
In certain NAY ~" futy-'l % tl' mo-. D., ~
therefore h. devised a Photographic puin' Tor We
mort OF demonstration. This ~a- mAchh WIN
a long brass polished tube containing or INC lI-lu
. set O.. prsns. rejecting one 90 me othFi lh'i'
XaS "A so The necessary space 'rrtug'd lu ih" tu'r
FOR taking Kay photograph. '' c"ut-e. 10y
this DIM tn subjrc' had boon released from III
quarter o. "a dollar. PLACED g. on "a pie. % "hii'
f1ncr ana called he attention CO.. hi tsu)"r' 10 ~
he had hin! look A. e steadily. unlfi"tfNptrdil
persistently. tOr the spac" ~ 4 minute ana hH''
straight line with IN" polished brass tube. ana
while IN this position Mi Edison tunnel OF 10, NV
phoiographic machine. with ~ n"Nif discover,
sensitive nlm ana took me fhpu-'' ~ tdi'.. VI
Edison explalncd that s~nsitiy" Mas the film "
chemical substance used IN the pNo.oBi ipti- "otk
that the lrh' coming through y plnho,o "ouli
render II useless III" Tim h"1 Fir1' a,u" w.
powers and collects dust particle ana Other ~"t-
stances In tho air With great qui"kues- 10 j. pa
i'm A box AZ the other end % the hfn~- tub
result this test the MIN Whc1 developed
round object MI Edison admits that this "as OulJ
one experiment. and that the round outline may
be purely accidental or Imaginary. hni hc Tee
that IL il an Indication 81 wonderful hclds in
m. peculiar outcome % the experiment ~hs ~"
fact that while looking IN the braS- tube after nav
.n1 gnzef fOr q minute and q hal' az fh' silver
quarter tho bOy became sell }if otlz"G. TINS if
,is~lf was a. feature vel worth looking att'r.
Edison viii coUtluu" experiments on i'l-
invention az a laboratory ~hlrh he has ~ some
secret out.Gf-tae."ay plac" H"i d. fs"' ooilorh,
that he Will make success o. 1t IL come, iIci
with this device for photOgrhphiuL thought b" has
made a discover which leads him to bol"y" that
he can photograph coors T'is VII "''o b"