Era
1870s
19 entries in the archive from the 1870s.
Biographies (18)
Annie Besant | Biography
Annie Besant, the London-born freethought lecturer, Knowlton Trial defendant of 1877, Fabian Society founding member, Theosophical Society President from 1907 to 1933, and founder...
Daniel Dunglas Home | Biography
Daniel Dunglas Home, the Scottish-born Connecticut-raised medium of the Victorian period who produced phenomena across the drawing-rooms of London, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Rome...
Eusapia Paladino | Biography
Eusapia Paladino, the Italian peasant-born materialisation medium whose seances were investigated across the 1890s and 1900s by Cesare Lombroso, Charles Richet, Camille Flammarion,...
F. W. H. Myers | Biography
Frederic William Henry Myers, classical scholar, Cambridge Apostle, Inspector of Schools, and co-founder of the Society for Psychical Research in 1882. Coined the term telepathy in...
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | Biography
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the Russian-born co-founder of the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875 with Henry Steel Olcott and William Quan Judge. Author of Isis Unveiled...
Henry Steel Olcott | Biography
Henry Steel Olcott, the American Civil War officer, agricultural-investigation journalist, and lawyer who became the first President of the Theosophical Society at its founding in...
Joseph Rodes Buchanan | Biography
Joseph Rodes Buchanan, the Kentucky-born physician who founded psychometry in 1841 through experiments with a sensitive who described the properties of metals and chemicals from...
Jules Verne | Biography
Jules Verne, the Nantes-born French writer whose Voyages Extraordinaires across the 1863 to 1905 period are the substantive cultural-grammar source of three documented...
Leonora Piper | Biography
Leonora Evelina Piper, the Boston-born trance medium whose eighteen-year working partnership with Richard Hodgson at the American Society for Psychical Research produced the two...
Nikola Tesla | Biography
Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American electrical engineer, inventor of alternating current and the Tesla coil. The wireless-power years at Wardenclyffe, the 1899 Colorado Springs Mars...
Sir Oliver Lodge | Biography
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, the Liverpool and Birmingham physicist who built the Lodge coherer in 1894 and transmitted wireless signals across an Oxford lecture-theatre before...
Pierre Curie | Biography
Pierre Curie, the Paris physicist who co-discovered piezoelectricity in 1880 with his brother Jacques, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel...
Richard Hodgson | Biography
Richard Hodgson, the Australian-born Trinity College Cambridge classical scholar who became the most consequential Society for Psychical Research investigator of his generation....
Sigmund Freud | Biography
Sigmund Freud, the Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis whose private interest in telepathy and thought-transference ran from the 1890s through to his death in London...
Thomas Edison | Biography
Thomas Alva Edison, the Ohio-born American inventor of the phonograph (1877), the practical incandescent light (1879), and approximately 1,093 patented devices across a working...
W. T. Stead | Biography
William Thomas Stead, the Northern Echo, Pall Mall Gazette and Review of Reviews editor whose Maiden Tribute investigation of 1885 raised the British age of consent and whose...
Sir William Crookes | Biography
Sir William Crookes, the chemist who discovered thallium in 1861, invented the Radiometer in 1872, gave his name to the vacuum tube Wilhelm Roentgen used to discover X-rays in...
William Stainton Moses | Biography
William Stainton Moses, the Lincolnshire-born English clergyman who served as a master at University College School London from 1871 to 1889 and produced under the pen name M.A....
