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1910s

30 entries in the archive from the 1910s.

Biographies (12)

Aleister Crowley | Biography

Aleister Crowley, the Leamington Spa-born English occultist who joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1898, received the Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law) at the...

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...

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,...

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...

Marie Curie | Biography

Marie Skłodowska Curie, the Polish-born French physicist and chemist who co-discovered polonium and radium with Pierre Curie in 1898, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, won...

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...

Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd | Biography

Richard E. Byrd (1888 to 1957), United States Navy polar aviator. The contested 1926 North Pole flight, the 1929 South Pole flight, the 1934 Advance Base winter that nearly killed...

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...

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