September 5, 1896: Sympsychography
The September 1896 issue of
The Popular Science Monthly contained an article by David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, about the invention of a form of mental photography called Sympsychography. The process allowed people to create an image on a photographic plate merely by concentrating their minds on what they would like to appear. Jordan intended it as a joke, and it was identified as such the next day in the
Chicago Tribune. Nevertheless, many other papers took it seriously.
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