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In the spring of this year, previously unknown to the wider circle of pages from Thomas Edison’s memoirs. From these materials it follows that the famous inventor created an apparatus that allowed communicate with the spirits of dead people.
Edison’s Unknown Invention
Everyone knows Edison: “Well, we know! Famous inventor! “However, ask such a” scholar “to list though there would be 5 inventions of Edison – the list will probably be limited to a phonograph and a light bulb. But Edison patented 1,093 inventions! Not less (and maybe more!) left in the drawings, sketches, experienced samples or only in oral stories of his assistants. One of there was a “necrophon” – a device for communicating with the spirits who left this world.
Secret Memoirs
In 1948, to the anniversary of the pride of the American nation, the publishing house The Philosophical Library has released a brochure that previously did not contain published pages from the diaries of the inventor. However not the brochure managed to hit the shelves, as under pressure from academia the U.S. government purchased all unsold items and destroyed them. But as it turned out, not all copies were destroyed. One of the survivors and surfaced recently in France. What is so scared venerable scientists? It turns out that Edison seriously believed in existence life after death and worked on a machine (named by him “necrophon”) for communication with the other world. All this was believed “men of science,” cast a shadow on the great inventor, allowed suspect him of quackery.
Edison communicates with ghosts
For serious researchers, Edison’s biography in the brochure does not contained nothing new. In 1920, the inventor in an interview told The American Magazin that it was working on a problem communication with the other world. In the early 30s in an interview with Scientific American “Edison said the apparatus was created, and in 1933 a journalist “Modern Mechanix Magazine” described how he attended an experiment in a scientist’s laboratory, during which a necrophon was made contact with a ghost. However worldwide known as the creator of the necrophon, Edison never became. Why?
Not every discovery is useful.
As always, the incident had not one but several reasons. 1. The apparatus was imperfect, not every experiment was successful, the results were ambiguous. Ghost not feel and not send a parcel to the patent office as Attachments to the patent application. Edison understood that the scientific world is unlikely Does the necrophon recognize and most likely expose the invention and its author of public obstruction. 2. “Public flogging” without a doubt would undermine Edison’s reputation in business, of which the inventor I could not allow it. He was not only a scientist and inventor, but also businessman. When working on a technical problem, he always I thought about future material gain, thanks to which I did not die at all in poverty. The businessman got the better of the scientist. 3. It is possible that the contacts with the other world led Edison to think about untimely his discovery. This has happened in history, and more than once: they destroyed their archives with the description of inventions and scientific calculations of Leonardo yes Vinci, Einstein, Tesla. Apparently, Edison should also be added to the list. Each of these reasons individually could push Edison to the decision to stop further research and destroy the device. A there were three of them! Be that as it may, but in the lifetime edition Edison didn’t say a word about the necrophon himself apparatus and its descriptions in the archives of the inventor after his death did not found. Edison biographers explain his interview about the creation of the necrophon like a “genius joke.” Well, the great man has the right to humor! However, there is reason to believe that the inventor spoke absolutely seriously no less.
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