History of Phrenology and the Psychograph
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Description: A brief overview of the psychograph, a device used to measure the anatomical structure of a head.
History of Phrenology and the Psycograph - MuseumofQuackery.com History of Phrenology and the Psycograph In 1901, Henry C. Lavery, a self-described "profound thinker" of Superior, Wisconsin became certain that phrenology was true and spent his next 26 years endeavoring to put this science into a machine. On January 29, 1931, he and his partner, Frank P. White, a businessman who had taken his life savings of $39,000 out of stock in a local sandpaper manufacturer - the 3M company - to finance the venture, announced the invention of such a machine - the "
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| Page title: | History of Phrenology and the Psycograph - MuseumofQuackery.com |
| Keywords: | phrenology, quackery, health fraud, quack medical device, Henry C. Lavery, Psychograph |
| Description: | The Museum's most popular device is the Psychograph, an antique phrenologymachine. Phrenology was the 'in theory' of the 19th century for determiningpersonality. |
| IP-address: | 216.97.227.80 |
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| Date | Creation Date: 07-may-2007 Expiration Date: 07-may-2014 |