You ca n’t charge the people of 1920 for falling for Edison ’s virtual trick . After all , this was the humanity who cook up the low-cal light bulb ! When he told a magazine he ’d invented a telephone that communicates with heart , hysteria intelligibly ensued .
Over 600 letters were post in to American Magazine , which bring out Thomas Edison ’s quotes on this walky - loquacious with the at rest . Some of the interrogative readers need were pretty mad — Gerald Fabris , who ’s the Museum Curator of Sound Recordings at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park , summarizedthe many responses into what you see below :
10 . Too late ! The ghosts are already figure out on the same machine .
9 . This phone will stamp out us all ! We need to believe in God and immortality !
8 . Dead people have no memory , so how can you communicate with them ?
7 . How can I get one of these phones ? Or , can I deal them when they hit stores ?
6 . How does the machine work ?
5 . Duh – you ca n’t verbalise to spirit unless you use a human medium , silly .
4 . Another “ communicating With the Dead ” car ? I already have one of those !
3 . mind , Mr. Edison ! The emotional state that would resolve this sound are vicious !
2 . I am a medium . So call me if you need any helper , Mr. Edison !
1 . We whole - heartedly substantiate this simple machine ! ( Of these , three letter come along to be from multitude officially educated in the field of science . )
plainly Edison was either delusional or playing a trick on the world , moot not a unmarried design or image was ever found , OR MAYBE he ’s drop the twelvemonth since his dying in 1931 working on the phone . Anyone seen “ Thomas Edison ” flash up on their company ID yet ? [ GEReportsviaFarkandRecombu ]
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