The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-02-28
THOUGHT WAVES
BY TELEGRAPHY
New Achievement In the Won
derfuI Art
STRANGE EXPERIMENT rs
Alleged Discovery of Professor kotik
Psychologist of Moscow Is caus-
ing Wonder in Scientific World.
Thought Photography.
STRANGE EXPERIMENTS

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Thought will be transmitted just as a
telegram is.
Thought energy can be carried along
conductor and into the earth much in
the same way as a lightning rod conducts
lightning
ut is more than possible that thought
can be conducted and make itself visible
In writing.
These remarkable conclusions concern
ing thought transmlsslons are reached by
Prof Kotik of Moscow, a psychologist
with a European reputation. He publish
es them in a pamphlet entitled 1.-THE In
visible Thought Photography" 1t Is at
tracing as great attention in Germany
as it is Russia
Kotik made the experiments on which
his conclusions are based on girl IA
years old daughter of a professional
thought reader, and her father. He chose
them because their minds are trained.
Kotik's audience was composed of the
members of the timer clinic" of Moscow
University, who may be regarded as ex
perts in Psychology. The girls eyes were
carefully bandaged, her ears were stuffed
with paraffin and cotton; literally she
was blind and deaf for the time.
In the first experiment her father stood
on bare wood floor, he holding her
hand. She read" quickly and accurate
ly all the words and short sentences her
father presented to her while he held
her hand. The words and sentences were
written by persons in the audience, and
most were In languages which neither
father nor daughter understood. ply
sician wrote in Greek. The girl. her eyes
bound still, reproduced the Greek char
acters in chalk on a blackboard.
| or course, scoffers will say her fatehr
conveyed to her the letters forming the
words by pressure of his hand, a code
she understands. Let them read on.
Father and daughter were placed on
/ either side of a closed door so that they
could not clasp hands The test words
! written were all Russian. 1t is difficult
! to reproduce the result of this expert
ment satisfactorily to English-speaking
readers. The Russian word "stol'' (ta-
/ ble) was GWEN to the father. The girl
/ read "stuk." which means piece" The
word "parschod" (steamer) was written;
the girl made it ''purked,' which means
nothing Several other complete words
were given, but with only one exception
they were all manned and mutilated by
the girl; but not so much as to be de-
void of all resemblance to the test word
presented by the father.
! More extraordinary results were to be
| achieved The wrists of father and daugh-
ter were connected by fine copper wire
bound around them. The girl was still
| blind and deaf, but even when they were
separated by the length Of the great hall
of the clinic she read with the greatest
J ease the written words given to her ia
/ Their.
Next they were separated by locked
door. She was successful at every at
| tempt.
Two rooms and three locked doors were
! placed between them. the wire being
slipped under the door or through the
keyhole. The result was equally success
full.
| The wire was then fastened in various
| places to the wall to prevent vibrations
| or pulling or other mechanical telegra-
| ply. About the results there Prof. Kotik
is somewhat contradictory in his state
ments He admits there was considera-
BILE hesitancy in the girls responses but
| insists that which was achieved proves
beyond shadow of doubt that it is pos
sible to transmit thought Geographically.
AS a climax to his experiments Prof.
Kotik placed father and daughter in the
same ROOM their wrists bound by the
same delicate copper WIRE. Really as rar
as thought transmission is concerned
they were far separated, for yards of
wire coiled between them. But without
| hestancy the girl read the words placed
in her fathers mind
A dispatch from Moscow just received
states that this girl has been subjected
to another test and stood it most sue
cessfully. At seance doctor wrote a
letter and placed 1t. folded in an envel-
ope The girls father was not in the
room and knew nothing of the contents,
neither did Prof. Kotlk The letter was
handed to the girl, who, after some mo-
ments' reflection and without opening 1t,
read aloud its contents
Considering that the girl was surround
ed by cold-blooded, skeptical scientists,
this story is so remarkable that before
believing 1t ordinary students of psychol-
ogy Will await further details. Indeed It
is strange that a man of Kotiks great
faith to the idea of thought transmission
by these means.
In Germany men like Prof Benedict
and Pros. Moll and Dessoir hesitate to
give their sanction to the new doctrine
until more careful experiments. eliminat-
| ing all possibility of mistake, have been
t~fa