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Themes > crackpots

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Joseph Babinski

Crackpot File Revisited

Regular readers of this blog might recall that I have a file in my desk that is the repository of all the half-baked pseudo-scientific crackpot ideas that I have come across in the course of my research and filed under 'C'.
6 Oct 2015
Picture of proposed katzenclavier

File It Under C...

There is a folder in my desk-drawer at the moment, one of several containing the fruits of months of research into various aspects of nineteenth-century science and disease.
3 Sep 2014
Punch image of advertisements in London

Something in the Air: Dr Carter Moffat’s Ammoniaphone and the Victorian Science of Singing

Dr Melissa Dickson's article, Something in the Air: Dr Carter Moffat's Ammoniaphone and the Victorian Science of Singing, has been published in the Spring 2017 edition of the Science Museum Group Journal.
28 Apr 2017
Ammoniaphone

Something in the Air?

I have never been able to help but scoff at the success of bottled water as a concept.
29 May 2016

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