Orgone Energy Accumulator (right-angle, closed) -- modern reconstruction
photograph · 2012
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SUMMARY
A photograph of a modern, human-sized reconstruction of an orgone energy accumulator, uploaded as the contributor's own work. Metadata read directly from the Commons imageinfo API: ImageDescription 'Human-sized orgone energy accumulator (ORAC) with door closed. Design follows Wilhelm Reich's guidelines.' -- i.e., the record itself identifies this as a reconstruction built to Reich's published design, not an original 1940s-1950s device or an FDA-seized artifact. License CC BY-SA 3.0. CORRECTION LOGGED: an earlier candidate object image, Commons File:"Orgone Accumulators" (FDA022) (4899254920).jpg, carried an FDA-authored caption claiming to depict three FDA-held accumulators, but the vision pass (both the author's own inspection and the independent reviewer subagent) found the image actually shows a person in a shiny cone-shaped hood and cape holding a funnel to a small framed box, on an orange studio backdrop -- clearly a comedic or dramatized still, not a documentary photograph of the seized devices. That file was dropped and replaced with this one; see the grounding log for the full note.
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A photograph of a modern, tall, cabinet-style reconstruction of an orgone energy accumulator, built to Wilhelm Reich’s published design and photographed by the Commons contributor as their own work (2012). Used as the case’s object image after an FDA-attributed candidate image was dropped: a visual inspection (both by the author and by the independent reviewer) showed that file’s actual content — a person in a costume holding a funnel to a small box — did not match its own archive caption claiming to show three FDA-held orgone accumulators. Captioned here honestly as a modern reconstruction, consistent with the Commons record’s own description, not as an original period artifact.