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A delicious hoax.

I'm Jason Horton.

I'm Rebecca Leib.

And this is ghost town.

After Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, he was truly America's darling.

A hero, a genius, someone who the public believed was able to solve the world's problems, with

elegance, intelligence, and grace.

But the public also probably should have known when he became the subject of one of the

greatest hoaxes in the 1800s, a wildly preposterous machine advertised to end world hunger.

Good thought, but the concept needs some workshopping.

Let's talk about Edison's food from dirt, water, and air machine.

On April 1, 1878, readers of the New York Graphics saw an advertisement in large print saying,

a food creator, period.

Edison invented a machine that will feed the human race, exclamation point.

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