MARCONI AND PSYCHICAL RESEARCH

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22411, 26 May 1938, Page 9

MARCONI AND PSYCHICAL RESEARCH

TO TBX EDITOR TEX PBEH. Sir, —In the Quarterly Transactions of the British College of Psychic Science for October, 1937, mention is made of the passing of Senator Marconi, and his visits to the college to attend the sittings held with Frau Silbert, the Austrian medium. The telekinetic demonstration, i.e» the movement of ob-

jects without contact, he then witnessed interested him deeply. The phenomena made an appeal to his inventive genius as to whether highly delicate instruments could not be made for registration purposes. On one occasion he said, “It is evident that the human brain could send messages to distances infinitely more remote than any mechanical transmitter ever devised, because thought consists of a category of those vibrations which we can just capture to-day with the microphone, but infinitely more subtle.” He had also personal experiences of his own to relate, good Catholic as he was. The interest of science is becoming aroused on this subject. Edison, the inventor, was intrigued by it, Hiram Maxim believed in it, and now the complaint is being made that the psychical researchers are all going over to the spiritualists.—Yours, etc., E. M. LOVELL-SMITH. May 23. 1938.