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Count Karnice-Karnicke

Russian noble

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innovative coffin design

  • In death: The point of no return

    …Poe’s macabre short stories that Count Karnice-Karnicke, a Russian nobleman, patented a coffin of particular type. If the “corpse” regained consciousness after burial, it could summon help from the surface by activating a system of flags and bells. Advertisements described the price of the apparatus as “exceedingly reasonable, only about…

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