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terça-feira, novembro 12, 2002

The Sympsychograph

The scientist David Starr Jordan published this image in Popular Science Monthly in 1896. He claimed it had been produced by a device called the Sympsychograph that transferred images from people's minds directly onto photographic film. In this case, the person had evidently been thinking of a cat. Jordan meant his claim to be a joke, but hundreds of readers were fooled into believing that the Sympsychograph was a real invention.

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