marion
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Found this supposed story on a site
http://www.csonline.net/bpaddock/Philadelf/inviman.htm
Link is dead. The PDF scan file can be accessed at the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030314220124/http://www.csonline.net/bpaddock/philadelf/inviman.pdf
apparently from a 1934 article in Popular Mechanics though of course it could all be a fake ( and I haven't checked snopes yet ) but it looks interesting though not exactly new ! Needs a PDF reader to see the pics . Inserts in the article are , I think , by the site owner .
Link is dead. The PDF scan file can be accessed at the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030314220124/http://www.csonline.net/bpaddock/philadelf/inviman.pdf
apparently from a 1934 article in Popular Mechanics though of course it could all be a fake ( and I haven't checked snopes yet ) but it looks interesting though not exactly new ! Needs a PDF reader to see the pics . Inserts in the article are , I think , by the site owner .
Photographs Show A Man Becoming Invisible
"After years of research, a young British inventor claims to have produced an apparatus which can render a man invisible although he still stands before you in the flesh. [The Inventor's name is not given, nor is the name of the person writing this.] Operation of the device, which is being used for exhibition purposes, is a closely guarded secret but the man who is to disappear is clothed in what is described as an "electro-helmet" [Today we would call it a Space Suite, or Environment (Bunny) Suite going by the picture.] and a "spectralmantle" [might be 'spectral-mantle', either way I have no idea, nor is it described].
"In this garb he looks like a deep-sea diver as he stands in a cabinet, open at the front, on a brilliantly lighted stage.
"With both hands he touches contact gloves above his head and an electric current is switched on. As the current becomes stronger, it is claimed that the man seems to become transparent, then gradually vanishes, the feet disappearing first, followed by the rest of the body, and finally the head. The subject then is said to be tangible but not visible. Spectators are invited to verify the man's presence in the cabinet by a touch of the hand, and maintain they can feel he is still there but are unable to see him. Even the eye of the camera does not reveal the secret. Photographs taken during successive stages of the vanishing act, show only what the human eye perceives."
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