“Psychograph, or Apparatus for Indicating Person’s Thoughts by the Agency of Nervous Electricty”

Adolphus Theodore Wagner

London AD 1854 No. 173

January 23, 1854

“Little Wonder” Planchette

Ralph S. Jennings

Patent #3135

July 28, 1868

“Device for Amusement and Instruction”

Frederick Becker

Patent #233,198

October 12, 1880

“Toy Fortune-Telling Device”

Alexander T. Ballatine

Patent #432,813

July 22, 1890

“Toy or Game”

Elijah J. Bond

Patent #446,054

February 10, 1891

“Talking Board”

Charles W. Kennard

Patent #462,819

November 10, 1891

“Apparatus for Indicating Telepathic Messages”

Colin Edmund Campbell

Patent #546,299

September 17, 1895

“Game Apparatus”

William Fuld

Patent #479,266

July 19, 1892

“Talking Board Instrument”

Justin F. Simonds

Patent #619,236

February 7, 1899

“Dial Planchette”

Henry C. Hachmuth

Patent #641,507

January 16, 1900

“Frame for Indicators”

George Foster Pearson

Patent #32,739

May 29, 1900

“Game Apparatus”

Theodore H. White

Patent #661,781

November 13, 1900

“Talking Board”

Jeremiah B. Randall

Patent #785,916

March 28, 1905

“Planchette Game Apparatus”

David Blaikley

Patent #969,935

September 13, 1910

“Planchette Device”

Henry F. Fontanella

Patent #1,091,206

March 24, 1914

“Toy”

Stephen N. Green

Patent #1,264,637

April 30, 1918

“Answering Board”

Daniel Sullivan

Patent #1,277,152

August 27, 1918

“Game Device”

Albert E. Downe

Patent #1,280,424

October 1, 1918

“Movable Member of a Talking Board”

William Fuld

Design Patent #56,001

August 10, 1920

“Spirit Message Conveying Device”

George Foster Pearson

Patent #1,322,727

November 25, 1919

“Finger Rest and Pointer for Game”

John Vanderkamp

Design Patent #56,085

August 10, 1920

“Message Interpreting Device”

Frederick H. Black

Patent #1,352,046

September 7, 1920

“Movable Member of a Talking Board”

William Fuld

Design Patent #56,658

November 23, 1920

“Nathan E. Goldberg Planchette”

Nathan E. Goldberg

Patent #1,366,174

January 18, 1921

“Game”

Conrad E. Gidlof

Patent #1,378,854

May 24, 1921

“Ouija Board”

Harry M. Bigelow

Patent #1,400,791

December 20, 1921

“Amusement Device”

George C. Weiss

Design Patent #1,406,431

February 14, 1922

“Spirit Wheel”

William H. Swallow

Patent #1,418,686

June 6, 1922

“Spiritualistic Communication Apparatus”

Sunker Abaji Bisey

Patent #1,420,956

June 27, 1922

“Game Board”

John R. Donnelly

Patent #1,422,042

July 4, 1922

“Stylus Guide for Psychic Games”

Frank C. Jenness

Patent #1,452,741

April 24, 1923

“Psychic Instrument”

Grover C. Haffner

Patent #1,476,158

December 4, 1923

“Astrological Chart and Indicating Device”

Karl Manahan

Patent #1,587,018

June 1, 1926

“Mediumistic Board”

Cutberto Hildago & Jose Lopez Zuazua

Design Patent #70,170

August 25, 1924

“John D. Zieley Game”

John D. Zieley

Patent #1,809, 098

January 10, 1929

“Amusement Device”

Hilda C. Enge

Patent #1,846,481

September 15, 1930

“Amusement Device”

William A. Fuld

Patent #1,870,677

August 9, 1932

“Amusement Device”

John R. Donnelly

Patent #2,220,455

November 5, 1940

“Stylus Guide for Psychic Games”

John Albert Cheape

Patent #2,359,355

October 3, 1944

“Planchette”

Joseph W. Sloper

Patent #2,381,933

August 14, 1945

“Finger Pressure Actuated Message Interpreting Amusement Device”

Raymond S. Richmond

Patent #2,511,377

June 13, 1950

“Writing Game Planchette”

John J. Batcha

Patent #2,593,244

April 15, 1952

“Message Device with Freely Swingable Pointe”

Thomas W. Gillespie

Patent #3,306,617

January 27, 1964

“Message Revealing Device”

Paul R. Foght, Jr.

Patent #3,307,849

March 7, 1967

“Spinner Game Device”

Hans-Ulrich K.W. Pannwitz

Patent #3,441,281

April 29, 1969

“Psychograph with Sound-Producing Members”

Edward D. O’Brian

Patent #4,371,167

February 1, 1983