Rivers ....you are absolutely correct my friend! And this is the very same device! A doctor....I am not good at remembering facts....expecially names .....but this doctor took up the project later....then died.....then another man once again started the project up. It was already working way back then but just was not very user friendly and it was hard to understand the voices. Well...later this last man to work on the project was contacted by the doctor who had been working on it and told him that he and Edison had spoken in the afterlife and they had figured out exactly what the problem was. Well, the doctor then worked with this man continually for many months on a daily basis and was able to tweak this invention till we now have wha..la...The Spiricom...or Spirit Comunications Device. With this device we are able to contact ppl on the other side and talk to them as though we are talking to them on the telephone. There are seminars around the world in which ppl will come and pick up the phone and try to contact their loved ones. Many many of them say that they are certain that they were talking to someone they new. Many of these conversations are available on the web-site that I have listed. Including much of the last inventors conversations with the doctor himself and the conversation were he talks about Edison and his instructions. I first learned of this on the AM radio show Into The Unknown with Art Bell and George Nory which I listen to nightly from 10 pm until 4 am every night. They interviewed this inventory and they were so convinced that they did an entire 4 hour show on these EVP's. Anyway.... I am also fascinated with this and hope to some day get to see for myself.
Very impressed that you knew about that Rivers.