# William Crookes
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Sir william crookes (; 17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry in London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube which was made in 1875. This was a foundational discovery that eventually changed the whole of chemistry and physics.
170 - Calling the Spirits with Lisa Morton - Big Seance
Lisa Morton tells the fascinating history of seances in her new book, Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances. Discussion included necromancy, spook shows, Spiritualism, fraudulent mediums, D.D. Home, Helen Duncan, Florence Cook, William Crookes, the American Civil War, spirit rapping, EVP, …
Ilan Gur: Climate Solutions Finalists Kickoff
Ilan Gur, founder and director of the high-tech incubator Cyclotron Road relates the work of chemist William Crookes and subsequent critical discoveries motivated by the global crisis of food supply and population in the 19th century, and how overcoming skepticism in finding solutions is critical …
You’ve Got Brainmail
In our last episode of the season, we take one one of the most requested futures: telepathy! What would it be like to be able to link minds, and communicate brain to brain? And how likely is it that we’ll ever get this kind of technology?
We start the episode by talking to Roger Luckhurst, a Pr…
Ilan Gur: Climate Solutions Finalists Kickoff
Ilan Gur, founder and director of the high-tech incubator Cyclotron Road relates the work of chemist William Crookes and subsequent critical discoveries motivated by the global crisis of food supply and population in the 19th century, and how overcoming skepticism in finding solutions is critical …
Episode 11: The Dead Speak
The 19th-century Spiritualist movement was rife with fraud and misplaced hopes, but what made people so eager to believe in the possibility of talking to the dead? This episode looks at some early mediumistic pioneers, attractions beyond the metaphysical that drew sitters to take part in seances, …
Episode 6: William Crookes - Beyond the Veil (Part One)
William Crookes was a scientific polymath. He discovered thallium. He was a master of spectroscopy. He talked to ghosts.
...okay, one of those things may not SEEM scientific, but trust us, it is. After a tragedy befell his family, William Crookes was sucked into the world of the paranormal. Eventu…
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