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Miscellaneous See other Miscellaneous Articles Title: Edison and Tesla C2C program summary C2C... Thomas Edison was convinced that there was a reality unseen by the human eye. This led to the last and least-known of all his inventions, the "spirit phone." His former associate (and bitter rival) Nikola Tesla was also developing a similar device. "Both of them thought there was a consumer market for talking to the dead," said Birnes. In the second half, he described the rivalry and how Edison’s own near-death experience formed his theory that animate life forms don’t die, but rather change the nature of their composition. America in the 1920s saw a revival of spiritualism, with families trying to communicate with dead relatives who had perished in WWI. Birnes said Edison believed that "when a body died, that the essence of a person still existed" which could be detected by a light meter and used as a communication channel. Tesla thought that the secret to communication with the dead lay in detecting the right radio or sound waves to listen to the words of the departed. Although Edison thought that psychics and mediums were all frauds, he nevertheless hired them to help him with experiments, which met with little success. Tesla’s concepts never got much further than the planning stage. Birnes pointed out that Edison targeted ideas that he believed people would need and "helped invent the consumer marketplace of the 20th century," while Tesla was "more ideological" and conceptualized ideas such as devices that would receive radio waves through a narrow band, which laid the work for more recent products, such as the cell phone. In the last half hour, Birnes described Tesla’s death in 1943, after which the U.S. government seized all of his papers, but refused to release his suspected notes on anti-gravity theory. Poster Comment: Military may have developed anti-gravity levitation and is using it in the mysterious large triangular craft that are reported sighted as UFO's; is keeping principles secret for strategic reasons. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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