Alois Benjamin Saliger (June 30, 1880 – April 1969), also known as A. B. Saliger, was a New York City-based

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inventor, businessman, and immigrant. In 1927, he invented the Psycho-Phone or Psychophone, a modified version of American inventor

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that Saliger intended to be used in the field of

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Biography

He was born on June 30, 1880, in

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in the

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in the

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, now the

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, to Marie and Frank Saliger. He was the owner of the Saliger Ship Salvage Company in New York, and was charged with

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: "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." He died in April 1969.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saliger, Alois Benjamin 1880 births 1969 deaths Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States 20th-century American inventors