Science versus the seance, 1891

*The seance pretty much wins hands down.

*Awesome period spook photos here. Get yourself some MAKE magazine gear, some bluetooth and a few Arduino boards, and it ought to be dead easy to re-create an ultra-Gothic steampunk apparitional seance, in all its table-rapping, ectoplasmatic glory.

http://www.pd.org/Perforations/perf29/violi/violi_proof_positive.htm

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