The Hat-Moving Experiment
Anon
Genre: | Illustration, Drollery |
Relevant illustrations: | wdct. |
Illustrators: | J L, pseud. [John Leech] * |
Subjects: | Spiritualism, Amusement, Experiment |
Shows a large drawing room in which people are gathered around tables experimenting with the phenomena of hat-turning. The caption explains how to solicit motion from the hat and explains that the moustached figure in the foreground 'thinks that in the pursuit of Science he could perform the Experiment over and over again'. |
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