The Realms Beyond: Thomas Edison and The Necrophone, An illustrated lecture with Philippe Baudouin
Date: Tuesday, January 26th
Time: 8pm
Admission: $8
Location: Morbid Anatomy Museum, 424 Third Avenue, 11215 Brooklyn NY
Tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2466143
If the name of Thomas Edison is commonly associated with more than 1000 inventions such as the incandescent lamp, the talking doll or the phonograph , it is quite different from his psychical research. While most of his biographers have explored the many facets of his life, they remained silent about the experiments that led Edison in the last ten years of his life in the field of communication with the dead.
The work of this self-made man in the field of sound reproduction and occult are symptomatic in the history of these disciplines of a common interest in the voice phenomenon and its electrical double. So, let’s discover the forgotten history of necrophone , the weirdest invention of Thomas Edison.
Philippe Baudouin is broadcast director at Radio France (Paris) and essayist. He wrote different books about Walter Benjamin and sound studies. He’s just published a forgotten Thomas Edison’s book : “The Realms Beyond” >> http://www.millon.fr/
Tickets are non-refundable unless the event is canceled.