Post by Teej on Jun 26, 2003 23:37:32 GMT -5
Thomas Alva Edison was a scientist, first and foremost. He had little interest in faith as a religion because it showed no scientific proof. He believed that ghosts were not souls, but swarms of infinitesimally small units. This is how ghosts can pass through solid things such as walls, doors, etc. while retaining the person's physical appearance. If true, then it is only a visible memory of the person and not their soul.
Edison began constructing a machine to try and communicate or at least record with ghosts. What Edison had in mind was this: A man would turn a valve and start a 50,000-horsepower steam engine that would be so sensitive that the slightest effort that it intercepts will be magnified many times.
He never really believed in an afterlife, but on his deathbed he told the physician that "it is very beautiful over there." Several of Edison's workers found that their clocks had stopped exactly at 3:24 AM-the time of Edison's death. The plans for the machine were never found.
A few instances have occurred that lead people to believe that Edison has found the afterworld. There have been a few instances such as people hearing voices inside the Edison Birthplace Museum in Milan, Ohio. One boy even asked his mother during a tour if she could hear the angel's voices. There have also been seances where Edison told the people involved modifications to his machine and the names of 3 assistants who had the plans. One man, J. Gilbert Wright, supposedly found the plans, made the machine, and even contacted other inventors that gave more modifications. He died in 1959 and once again the machine disappeared (which leads me to think that he never actually made it).
Edison hated popular methods of contacting ghosts (ouija boards, mediums, etc.). He said that the difference between popular methods of contacting ghosts and his is that his would be backed by scientific proof. I wish he would have finished it, I think it would have given a totally new outlook as to whether or not ghosts exist.
Source: Haunted Ohio by Chris Woodyard
Edison began constructing a machine to try and communicate or at least record with ghosts. What Edison had in mind was this: A man would turn a valve and start a 50,000-horsepower steam engine that would be so sensitive that the slightest effort that it intercepts will be magnified many times.
He never really believed in an afterlife, but on his deathbed he told the physician that "it is very beautiful over there." Several of Edison's workers found that their clocks had stopped exactly at 3:24 AM-the time of Edison's death. The plans for the machine were never found.
A few instances have occurred that lead people to believe that Edison has found the afterworld. There have been a few instances such as people hearing voices inside the Edison Birthplace Museum in Milan, Ohio. One boy even asked his mother during a tour if she could hear the angel's voices. There have also been seances where Edison told the people involved modifications to his machine and the names of 3 assistants who had the plans. One man, J. Gilbert Wright, supposedly found the plans, made the machine, and even contacted other inventors that gave more modifications. He died in 1959 and once again the machine disappeared (which leads me to think that he never actually made it).
Edison hated popular methods of contacting ghosts (ouija boards, mediums, etc.). He said that the difference between popular methods of contacting ghosts and his is that his would be backed by scientific proof. I wish he would have finished it, I think it would have given a totally new outlook as to whether or not ghosts exist.
Source: Haunted Ohio by Chris Woodyard
