Greetings and Salivations!!!!!!! Tonight’s addition to the artifact series will be an oddball compared to the others; The Spirit Phone! Most of you likely haven’t heard of it, but I’m sure you will all know its creator ;D
Thomas Edison worked on this device during the last decade of his life. In multiple essays, Edison had pondered over how a spirit could exist after death. He had many theories, some of which were disproved as biology advanced over the years. He believed that spirits consisted of “life units” that would break apart and become something new, and that all things were made of these life units.
Edison wrote in one of his essays, “For my part, I am inclined to believe that our personality hereafter will be able to affect matter. If this reasoning be correct, then, if we can evolve an instrument so delicate as to be affected, or moved, or manipulated – whichever term you want to use – by our personality as it survives in the next life, such an instrument, when made available, ought to record something. I have been at work for sometime building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.”
This device was in progress up until Thomas Edison died, supposedly unfinished. Yet some sources believe that not only did Edison finish the Spirit Phone, but actually used it during a few gatherings of his friends.
Interestingly, Thomas Edison’s last words after waking briefly from his comatose state before his death, “
It’s very beautiful over there!”
Thoughts? Let me know what you think of this addition to the Artifact Series, and if you have anything you would like to see, just let me know! Til next week friends 😀
~Emrys
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