Thomas Edison invented the incandescent lightbulb, the motion picture camera, the alkaline battery, and the phonograph just to name a few. You may also know him for being infamous for taking other peoples’ ideas and patenting them as his own. There was one time he made an invention to make it possible to communicate with the dead, but he destroyed it before going public with it, or so the legends claim.
Thomas Edison invented the incandescent lightbulb, the motion picture camera, the alkaline battery, and the phonograph just to name a few. You may also know him for being infamous for taking other peoples’ ideas and patenting them as his own. There was one time he made an invention to make it possible to communicate with the dead, but he destroyed it before going public with it, or so the legends claim.
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One day, the idea struck me that Edison's rumored spirit phone would make a good premise for a novel, so I wrote it: The Spirit Phone (BHC Press, 2022). It's set in New York in 1899. Edison has begun marketing the spirit phone as a consumer item, with disastrous results. This prompts Aleister Crowley and Nikola Tesla to investigate. https://www.bhcpress.com/Books_OKeefe_The_Spirit_Phone.html
