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Not Yet Ready
In 1888 H. P. Blavatsky and Richard Harte published a complete ethics of dangerous technology, attached to Keely's motor: the world was not yet ready.
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The Operator in the Circuit
Albert Abrams's dynamizer, Ruth Drown's trials, the Hieronymus patent, and the 1960 High Court case of de la Warr's black box.
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The Stone That Needed a Seer
Queen Elizabeth's mathematician John Dee kept a crystal and a black mirror for speaking with angels, but saw nothing in them himself; every vision came…
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Ghosts in the Machine
Robert Hare built laboratory instruments to test the séance, and the Seybert Commission judged slate writing indistinguishable from fraud.
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The First Blinded Experiment
In 1784 a royal commission under Benjamin Franklin tested Mesmer's animal magnetism and invented the placebo control to test an occult claim.
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The Magician's Rule
In 1533 the standard manual of Renaissance magic made the prepared human being a working part of every operation.
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The Machine That Died With Its Maker
For twenty-six years John Worrell Keely demonstrated a motor that ran on no fuel, and no one but Keely ever ran it.
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The Occult History of Technology
Machines, hidden forces, and the people who connected them.
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