Thomas Edison invented so many things.
Which was his favorite?
That would be the talking doll.
It contained a miniature phonograph (also his invention).
And it played the recording when its string was pulled.
Some people thought the device contained some kind of ghostly spirit.
Which, to be fair, Edison was known for trying to communicate with the dead.
Alexander Graham Bell was, too. It was his reason for inventing the telephone, after all, right?
But not for the purposes of sticking the dead spirits into dolls to make a child’s plaything.
Because that would be weird.
Profitable, but weird.