Born into a family of schoolteachers, Jean Perdrizet pursued scientific studies and in 1931 obtained a technical assistant diploma from the École nationale des ponts et chaussées. He was subsequently employed by the military engineering corps in Grenoble and later by Électricité de France. He was forced to stop working due to health issues. Single, he followed his family to Digne-les-Bains in 1955.
From the early 1930s onward, describing himself as an “inventor,” he began designing prototypes and machine plans intended to communicate with ghosts or extraterrestrials: an “electric oui-ja,” a “typewriter with the beyond,” a “cosmonaut robot,” etc. He also invented a universal language: the “T language.”
His work, which he submits to NASA, the CNRS, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the hope of receiving the Nobel Prize, draws ridicule from some scientists, but also the interest of those who reject the omnipotence of rationalist thought.