Edison’s Food Machine (GT Mini)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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A hoax causes a food based stir on April Fools Day, 1873. More Ghost Town: https://www.ghosttownpod.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod (7 Day Free Trial!) Instagram: https;//www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod Source: https://bit.ly/47UdjZW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:20.7	A delicious hoax.
0:22.7	I'm Jason Horton.
0:23.7	I'm Rebecca Leib.
0:25.6	And this is ghost town.
0:42.9	After Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, he was truly America's darling.
0:49.0	A hero, a genius, someone who the public believed was able to solve the world's problems, with
0:54.8	elegance, intelligence, and grace.
0:58.0	But the public also probably should have known when he became the subject of one of the
1:02.6	greatest hoaxes in the 1800s, a wildly preposterous machine advertised to end world hunger.
1:10.2	Good thought, but the concept needs some workshopping.
1:15.3	Let's talk about Edison's food from dirt, water, and air machine.
1:20.0	On April 1, 1878, readers of the New York Graphics saw an advertisement in large print saying,
1:26.8	a food creator, period.
1:29.5	Edison invented a machine that will feed the human race, exclamation point.
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