Did Edison really want to say hello to the dead?

Edison made an astounding announcement in October, 1920: that he was working on a machine that could communicate with the world of spirits! There was a revival of spiritualism after World War I and there were many people who hoped science would find a means to reach out to the world of souls. Edison himself admitted he had no idea if a world of spirits really existed, but spoke to some magazines and The New York Times that his new machine would measure the ‘life units’ that scatter through the universe after death.

There was a British inventor named Sir William Crookes, who claimed to have taken photographs of spirits. Edison corresponded with Crookes, and the photos interested him. However, he did not actually come up with any machine to communicate with the dead. Quite probably, Edison was just playing a joke on the reporters, when he spoke of the ‘spirit phone’.

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