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John B. Buescher Interview
John B. Buescher
Spear's reform work, spiritual instructions, and the Mechanical Messiah project in full.
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John Murray Spear: Father of the Mechanical Messiah
A radical reformer claims spirits of history's great minds instructed him to build a miraculous machine and a new messiah.
Spiritualism, invention, and faith collide in one of the strangest American nineteenth-century lives.
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