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Edison's Quest to Talk to the Dead: The Unexpected Final Creation of the World's Greatest Inventor
Edison's Quest to Talk to the Dead The Unexpected Final Creation of the World's Greatest Inventor Author:William J. Birnes, Joel Martin Thomas Edison was arguably the greatest inventor in history. His phonograph created the recording industry, his motion picture camera created the movie industry, and the light bulb has changed the — landscape of virtually every corner of the world. — Edison was no head-in-the-clouds idealist. From the time he started his first business, selling an... more »d printing newspapers on a Michigan train route, Edison relied on practical theory to develop products that would create and then satisfy the needs of a consumer market. But his last and least-known invention may well have been his greatest: the spirit phone, a device to communicate with the dead.
Edison's Quest to Talk to the Dead is the story of this mysterious adventure, which dominated the final decade of his life as he gathered scientists, engineers, and spiritual mediums to conduct experiments in contacting the "other side."
Birnes and Martin explore Edison's motives, the science he believed supported those attempts, the consumer market he hoped to reach, and the social and cultural history that inspired him to do what his detractors--including the Church--said was not only impossible, but immoral.« less