Era
1920s
29 entries in the archive from the 1920s.
Biographies (11)
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...
Jesse Marcel | Biography
Jesse Marcel, intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field. Recovered debris from the Foster Ranch on 7 July 1947 with Captain Sheridan Cavitt and was...
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...
Otis T. Carr | Biography
Otis T. Carr (1904 to 1982), the Baltimore engineer and self-described Tesla student whose OTC Enterprises promoted the OTC-X1 flying-saucer prototype across the late 1950s,...
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...
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Wonders
Wonders covered cryptozoology and anomalous phenomena with contributions from Mark A. Hall and other researchers, spanning material from the 1870s through the 1990s.
