Overview

The inventor is Thomas A. Edison; the invention, a little known idea of his to build a device for communicating with the next life, a proposal he actually broached in Scientific American magazine. Bizarre but true. That is the story behind this drama, which intersperses events in Edison's life with visits by such historical figures as Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, and Matthew Brady, whose lives intersected with Edison's. The human side of Edison comes to life.

Keywords

• Aging
• Love
• Marriage