EDISON WORKING ON DEVICE TO TALK TO THE DEAD
Chicago, Illinois (JFK+50) Inventor Thomas Alva Edison*, according to an American Magazine article of September 30, 1920, was working on a device which would communicate with the dead.
The Chicago Daily Tribune of October 1, 1920 stated that Mr. Edison told reporter B.C. Forbes...
"I am proceeding on the theory that the degree of material or physical power possessed by those in the next life must be extremely slight...any instrument designed to communicate with us must be super delicate, as fine and responsive as human ingenuity can make it."
Thomas Edison said that he believed human personality in the hereafter "will be able to affect matter."
Ten years earlier, in October 1910, the New York Times published a front page story quoting 'the wizard of electricity' as saying there is "no immortality of the soul." Edison believed that...
"human beings are only an aggregate of cells and the brain only a wonderful machine."
JFK+50 NOTE
There seems to be some conflict with these statements by Mr. Edison. If in 1910 he did not believe in the 'immortality of the soul,' then why in 1920 would he be working on a device to communicate with the dead?
*Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) was born in Milan, Ohio, & largely self-educated. TAE became America's greatest inventor. He had more than 1000 patents in his career & his inventions included the electric light, the phonograph, and motion picture camera.
SOURCE
"Edison Working on Instrument to Talk to Dead," Chicago Daily Tribune, October 1, 1920.
Thomas Alva Edison
Library of Congress Photo (1922)
