Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1913 — Photographing Thoughts. [ARTICLE]

Photographing Thoughts.

Not long ago the claim was made in Japan that Japanese scientists had actually photographed thought. Just how thoroughly the scientific world at large was convinced of this is a question, but the announcement did create considerable discussion. Dr. Max Bass, of Clark college, Worcester, Mass., evidenced unusual interest in this, and; in his discussion he observed that a good way of taking photographs of thoughts would be to expose the film in a vacuum tank while the subject whose thoughts were to be caught on the sensitized plate would lean hid head against his tank. Another method which might result in some Interesting results, according to Dr. Bass, might be to take an unexpesed film roll, and have two subjects unroll it in a dark room and each develop it together; at the same time they should not speak, but should each continue to think intently upon some single subject previously agreed, upon. ,