A W Dobbie and clairvoyancy |
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| Title : | A W Dobbie and clairvoyancy |
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| Creator : | Duryea, Townsend, 1854-1925, photographer | ||
| Source : | Chronicle pictorial pages, 16 June 1906, p. 29 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1906 | ||
| Format : | Newspaper | ||
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Alexander Dobbie was born in Glasgow in 1848 and arrived in Adelaide with his family in 1851. Trained as a brass founder, at the age of 19 he opened his own business. The AW Dobbie foundery became well known for a range of iron goods for farm and household use, and including Dobbie's own inventions. He was said to have been the first in the southern hemisphere to invent a working telephone, as well as a phonograph and microphone. Dobbie was a member of the Methodist Church, but from 1878 became interested in hypnosis and clairvoyancy. His 'lady clairvoyant' gained something of a reputation in Adelaide for finding the whereabouts of lost items. |
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| Related names : | Dobbie, A.W. (Alexander Williamson), 1843-1912 |
| Coverage year : | 1906 |
| Place : | Adelaide (S. Aust.) |
| Further reading : | Dobbie, A.W. 'Clairvoyance in Adelaide', Adelaide observer, 8 January 1887, p. 42 Dobbie, A.W. (Alexander Williamson). Rough notes of a traveller, taken in England, Scotland, France, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Greece, Egypt, Ceylon and elsewhere, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent [1890] Reed, John R. Victorian conventions, [Athens]: Ohio University Press, [1976] Warburton, Elizabeth, 'Dobbie, Alexander Williamson (1843-1912)', Australian dictionary of biography, supplementary volume, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005, pp. 103-104 |
| Internet links : | Australian dictionary of biography online: search for Alexander Williamson Dobbie |
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