オキーフ　アーサー    Arthur O'Keefe
   オキーフ　アーサー
   所属
国際学部 国際学科
   職種
准教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2023/02
形態種別 その他
標題 The Myth of the Edison-Tesla Spirit Phone Rivalry
執筆形態 単著
掲載区分国外
出版社・発行元 Medium
概要 In 1920, Thomas Edison (1847-1931) claimed during an interview that he was attempting to invent a device to communicate with the dead. There are no known extant plans or equipment for the so-called "Edison spirit phone," though in the decades since Edison's death, it has become a fixture of speculations about the paranormal. In recent years, there have been books, articles, and online videos claiming that Edison took his spirit phone idea from another inventor, Nikola Tesla (1856-1947), and that the two inventors were in competition to invent such a device. This article demonstrates that assertions of a "Tesla spirit phone" project have no basis in fact, and are part of a larger (and baselss) trend of condemning Edison as having allegedly plagiarized the work of Tesla.