THE RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH — OCTOBER 24, 1920
TALK WITH THE DEAD.
MR. EDISON'S INSTRUMENT TO TALK WITH THE DEAD ♢ And Why the Great Inventor Believes the First Messages Will Come form the Spirits of Scientists Who Have Learned How to Use His Machine.
Do the dead live in a world beyond the grave? If so, is it possible for those in the spirit world to communicate with those left behind them on this earth? Just as communication between distant points on our earth is a matter of delicately constructed instruments, so also communication from the spirit world to our own earth must be accomplished through scientifically constructed instruments of even greater ingenuity and much more minute delicacy than the telegraph, the telephone or the wireless apparatus.
This is the belief of Thomas A. Edison, the foremost inventor of modern times, who has recently stated that the problem of receiving messages from the dead is a problem of pure science, and that he is endeavoring to perfect an apparatus which will make it possible to record messages from the spirit world if there are any spirits and if they desire to communicate with us. It is Mr. Edison's belief that only through some specially constructed scientific instrument will a message ever come from the realms of the departed, and that it will be from some spirit of a dead scientist—some wireless expert or telegraph expert or physicist—that the first messages will come.
The present method of receiving pretended messages from the dead through so-called spiritualistic “mediums”
