John Murray Spear's God Machine | Articles | Features | Fortean Times UK

John Murray Spear's God Machine | Articles | Features | Fortean Times UK: "Frankenstein’s creation of a living being became a key image of modern science’s quest to unlock the secrets of life itself. But, in 1854, an experiment far stranger than anything in Mary Shelley’s novel took place when a New England clergyman married science and spiritualism in an attempt to build nothing less than a god. Robert Damon Schneck set out to discover why… and what happened to the metal deity."