Daniel Dunglas Home
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Daniel Dunglas Home was a Scottish physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights, speak with the dead, and to produce rapping and knocks in houses at will. His biograph
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Daniel Dunglas Home, 1865-1870
William Cullen Bryant, a poet, and editor of the New York Evening Post, who witnessed one of Home's séances
Robert Browning, who wrote "Sludge the Medium" about Home
William Crookes
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Sir William Crookes was an English chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes,
Crookes in 1906
Blue plaque, 7 Kensington Park Gardens, London
The element thallium, discovered by Crookes
The mineral crookesite, a selenide of copper, thallium and silver (Cu 7(Tl, Ag)Se 4), named for Crookes