State Library of South Australia logo Religion in South Australia
SA Memory. South Australia past and present, for the future




A W Dobbie and clairvoyancy
Title : A W Dobbie and clairvoyancy A W Dobbie and clairvoyancy
Add To My SA Memory
Creator : Duryea, Townsend, 1854-1925, photographer
Source : Chronicle pictorial pages, 16 June 1906, p. 29
Date of creation : 1906
Format : Newspaper
Catalogue record
The State Library of South Australia is keen to find out more about SA Memory items. We encourage you to contact the Library if you have additional information about any of these items.
Copyright : Reproduction rights are owned by State Library of South Australia. This image may be printed or saved for research or study. Use for any other purpose requires permission from the State Library of South Australia. To request approval, complete the Permission to publish form.
Description :

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.

Subjects
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
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

Navigation

Home

About SA Memory

Explore SA Memory

SA Memory Themes

Search

My SA Memory

Learning

What's on

Contributors