Edison was trying to talk to the dead. He had two metal plates delicately balanced and when they touched each other they were electrified. He thought the dead might send messages like a telegraph key but when they came back to the shop every morning all they found were dead cockroaches who had stepped on the plates and energized it.
Bilan over 5 years ago
I don’t want to know what happens if the fool can’t catch a chicken.
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
And Centralia, PA, is still uninhabited because of those fires after the evacuation.
Otto Knowbetter over 5 years ago
Edison also invented a device to electrocute dogs, cats, and an elephant in his war against George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla.
therese_callahan2002 over 5 years ago
“Leave me alone, Mr. Pennywise!”
khmo over 5 years ago
Why doesn’t Centralia harness that geothermal energy and use it to heat the town?
Nathan Daniels Premium Member over 5 years ago
What, was it installed in his hair?
Huckleberry Hiroshima over 5 years ago
“Costumed fools?” Politicians, right?
Nighthawks Premium Member over 5 years ago
the tough part about those electrocution devices for cockroaches is trying to strap those little legs into those little electric chairs
without pulling them off their little squirming bodies.
joefearsnothing over 5 years ago
Tommy should have invented something to trim those out of control eyebrows! ;o]
Radish the wordsmith over 5 years ago
Edison was trying to talk to the dead. He had two metal plates delicately balanced and when they touched each other they were electrified. He thought the dead might send messages like a telegraph key but when they came back to the shop every morning all they found were dead cockroaches who had stepped on the plates and energized it.
Spock over 5 years ago
What happened in Centralia once might have happened in Siberia and almost made all live on earth extinct:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/mar/12/burning-coal-may-have-caused-earths-worst-mass-extinction
jvn over 5 years ago
Capital punishment for insects must have been a big issue in Edison’s day.
paranormal over 5 years ago
There’s a coal fire in India that’s been burning over 100 years.