Alois Benjamin Saliger
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{{Short description|American inventor and businessman (1880–1969)}}
Alois Benjamin Saliger (June 30, 1880 – April 1969), also known as A. B. Saliger, was a New York City-based Czech inventor, businessman, and immigrant. In 1927, he invented the Psycho-Phone or Psychophone,{{cite web |url=http://www.capsnews.org/apn2009-4.htm |title=The Psycho-Phone |access-date=2010-11-15|publisher=Canadian Antique Phonograph Society | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101130103402/http://capsnews.org/apn2009-4.htm| archive-date= 30 November 2010 | url-status= live}} a modified version of American inventor Thomas Edison's phonograph that Saliger intended to be used in the field of psychology.{{cite web |last1=Wright |first1=Gwen |title=PsychoPhone |url=https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/psychophone/index.html |website=History Detectives: Special Investigations |publisher=Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) |access-date=12 February 2025}}
Biography
He was born on June 30, 1880, in Bartošovice v Orlických horách in the Kingdom of Bohemia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now the Czech Republic, to Marie and Frank Saliger.
He was the owner of the Saliger Ship Salvage Company in New York, and was charged with stock fraud in 1919.{{cite news |title=Salvaging Syndicate Says No Stocks Have Been Put on Sale. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1919/07/18/archives/denies-raid-on-offices-salvaging-syndicate-says-no-stocks-have-been.html |work=The New York Times |date= July 18, 1919 |access-date=2010-11-15 }}
In 1927, he invented the Psycho-Phone, or Psychophone, for sleep learning: "It has been proven that natural sleep is identical with hypnotic sleep , nd that during natural sleep the unconscious mind is most receptive to suggestions."{{cite magazine |title=Psycho-Phone |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlUQAAAAIAAJ&q=Saliger+psycho-phone |quote=Well, sir, since 1927, Mr. Saliger has sold more than 2500 Psycho-phones ... |magazine=The New Yorker |year=1933 |access-date=2010-11-18 }} He died in April 1969.
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Category:Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States