A Cosmology of Invisible Fluids: Wireless, X-Rays, and Psychical Research around 1900

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Beteiligte: Natale, Simone
In: Canadian Journal of Communication, 36, 2011, 2, S. 263-276
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
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Umfang: 263-276
ISSN: 0705-3657
1499-6642
DOI: 10.22230/cjc.2011v36n2a2368
veröffentlicht in: Canadian Journal of Communication
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> On December 28, 1895, the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen disclosed his discovery of X-rays to the public. Just a few months later, Guglielmo Marconi successfully demonstrated his wireless system at Salisbury Plain, England. This article traces the relations between the early histories of wireless and X-ray technology. It does so by highlighting the role played by psychic research to open the connections between different technologies and knowledges. The disclosure of occult connections between these two technologies helps to locate the cultural reception of wireless around 1900 in a wider cosmology of rays and invisible forces. </jats:p>