PHOTOGRAPHING THOUGHT.

Mt Benger Mail, Volume 17, Issue 854, 5 September 1896, Page 4

PHOTOGRAPHING THOUGHT.

Professor Rontgen must look to hia laurels. To see through a brick wall is something, but to be able to photograph thought is something greater still. Yet the claim has been made by a French doctor. Dr Baraduc has made a communication to the Paris Academie de Mcdecine in which he affirms that he has succeeded in photographing thought, and he has shown numerous photographs in proof of his assertion. His usual method of proceeding is (says the ' Standard's' correspondent) simple enough. The person whose thought is to be photographed enters a dark room, places his hand on a photographic plate, and thinks intently of the object the image of which he wishes to see produced. It is stated by those who have examined Dr Baraduc's photographs that most of them are very cloudy, but that a few are comparatively distinct, representing the features of persons and the outlines of things. Dr Baraduc goes further, and declares that it is possible to produce a photographic image at a great distance. In his communication to the Academie de Mcdecine, he relates that Dr latrate, when he was going to Campana, declared he would appear on a photographic plate of his friend M. Hasden, at Bucharest. On the 4th of August, 1893, M. Hasden (at Bucharest) went to bed with a photographic plate at his feet and another at his head. Dr Istrate went to sleep at Campana, at a distance of about 300 kilometres from Bucharest, but before closing his eyes he willed with all his might that his image should appear on the photographic plate of his friend. According to Dr Baraduc that marvel was accomplished. Journalists who have examined the photograph in question state that it consists of a kind of luminous spot on the photographic plate, in the midst of which can be traced the profile of a man.