Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses by Katie Spalding

Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses

Katie Spalding

352 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history science funny informative lighthearted medium-paced
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 Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, believed that he could communicate with the undead and built the world's very first hotline to heaven: the Spirit Phone.  Marie and Pierre Curie, famous for discovering radioactivity, slept next to a lump...

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