 Early Kennard Ouija Board |
Over the last century, spirit or talking boards have brought endless hours of entertainment to those who have dared to play. Spirit boards, witchboards, oracle boards, and mystery boards are all guises of the talking board.
Though talking boards made their debut in America circa 1880, many precursor incarnations appeared by the mid-1800s in Europe.
Edward O’Brian discovered the earliest known patent for a talking board in the patent offices in London, England.
Adolphus Theodore Wagner, a professor of music and resident of Berlin of the Kingdom of Prussia, filed his patent for a “PSYCHOGRAPH, OR APPARATUS FOR INDICATING PERSONS THOUGHTS BY THE AGENT OF NERVOUS ELECTRICITY” on January 23, 1854. That was 30 years before the first talking board patent was even filed in the United States.....
Though talking boards made their debut in America circa 1880, many precursor incarnations appeared by the mid-1800s in Europe.
Edward O’Brian discovered the earliest known patent for a talking board in the patent offices in London, England.
Adolphus Theodore Wagner, a professor of music and resident of Berlin of the Kingdom of Prussia, filed his patent for a “PSYCHOGRAPH, OR APPARATUS FOR INDICATING PERSONS THOUGHTS BY THE AGENT OF NERVOUS ELECTRICITY” on January 23, 1854. That was 30 years before the first talking board patent was even filed in the United States.....
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