Linking about: Pepper's Ghost

• A brief biographical sketch of John Henry Pepper, the "celebrity chef of Victorian science."
• Strictly speaking, the effect was invented by engineer Henry Dircks.
• The Pepper's Ghost effect on the nineteenth-century stage.
• Another account. 
• A more technical explanation of how it works.
• In the context of cinema history.
• Ghosts as a fairground attraction.
• The illusion created with more recent technology.
• A twenty-first century response, by Australian artist Keith Tucker.  
• How the illusion is used at the American Museum of Natural History.
• Probably the most famous current example of Pepper's Ghost in action: the grand hall at Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. 

Comments

[Mr Punch]

Very interesting. Your cinema history link has a picture of O.W. Holmes Jr. instead of his father.

[Russell Potter]

Many thanks indeed for these wonderful links. I'd long known of Professor Pepper and his Victorian edutainments, but I see now how far the Internet has progressed in terms of making both hard-to-find primary sources and worthy reference entries available!