The following report was given in The Orchestra (of all places!) in an article “The British Association’s Telephone” (September 1877). Note that it was around this time that Bell’s invention was demonstrated in Britain.
"But the instrument is still in its infancy, and who can foretell future results? Suppose, for instance, that by means of a lunar telephone conversation could be carried on between the Man in the Moon and the various lunatics at large or under restraint on this planet: what a flood of light might be thrown on the feelings and inner consciousness of klepto-, dipso, mono-, and poly-maniacs."
All this ahead of Freud and space travel. Some journalists had a vivid imagination.
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