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An interwar collective built machines intended to communicate with the dead
During the interwar period, the Ashkir-Jobson Trianion collective built several machines intended to enable communication with the dead, but no success has been established. The experiments were part of a succession of projects combining technology and spiritualism. Other devices claimed to weigh the soul, capture the voices of the deceased on magnetic tape or establish contact by radio. Thomas Edison also designed the necrophone, which never produced results. In 1982, George Meek and William O’Neil proposed the Spiricom in the United States, using frequencies between 30 and 130 MHz.