Listers: I got my inventions, not my inventors, crossed. It was Edison, not A. Bell: Thomas Edison, the brilliant inventor whose accomplishments include the light bulb, also spent years attempting to invent a device to communicate with the dead. Edison, whose parents were spiritualists, never fulfilled his dream of creating such a device. This little-known fact was first publicized in The American Magazine in October, 1920, in an article entitled, Edison Working to Communicate With The Next World. It is also documented in Sinclair Lewis’ 1951 book, Mental Radio, which has a foreword written by Albert Einstein.
Sorry for the mis-statement. Bill Missett
