“I Met Thomas Edison,” Says Twelve-Year-Old Boy in New Book

Photographic Evidence Suggests Boy’s Time-Travel Story Is True!

Scientists Study Boy’s Time Machine.

MPFS News: Twelve-year-old Anthony claims that he traveled into the past and spent several years working in Thomas Edison’s laboratory. “I worked with Thomas Edison on the phonograph, the light bulb, and the motion picture camera,” says the self-proclaimed time-traveler. “And, best of all, Thomas Edison told me the secret to his success!”

New photographic evidence suggests Anthony’s time-travel story is true. Anthony has been spotted in several famous photographs of Thomas Edison. The amazing photographs are on display at the Web site: www.MagicPictureFrame.com

Michael S. Class, a history buff and author, interviewed Anthony about his time-travel claims. “The photographic evidence is compelling,” says Class, “but the boy’s story is even more convincing. Anthony told me things that few people know about Thomas Edison. Anthony gave me an hour-by-hour eyewitness account of the experiments that led to the invention of the electric light – and, Anthony revealed Edison’s real reason for inventing it. Besides, how many people know that Edison invented the electric chair in 1888, and talking dolls for girls in 1890? Or that Edison tried to invent the telephone answering machine in 1892, but failed?”

Scientists converged on Anthony’s home to study the boy’s time-travel device – an ordinary picture frame on a wall. Anthony says he stepped through the picture frame and into the past. How the picture frame works is a matter of heated scientific debate. Astrophysicists argue that the picture frame warps space and time into a loop, connecting the present with the past. Experts in quantum physics, however, insist that the picture frame is not a time machine at all: it’s a “doorway” between alternate realities, past and present.
“I prefer a simpler explanation,” says Class, who is not a scientist. “Photographs are the captured light of the past. I think the picture frame released the captured light, transporting Anthony to the time and place the photograph was taken. Anthony hitched a ride on the light of other days.”

Author Michael S. Class published his interviews with Anthony in a new book: Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame. The book contains more than Anthony’s adventures with Thomas Edison. Class discovered that Anthony spent time with other heroic figures: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Charles Lindbergh, the soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, survivors of the Holocaust, Audie Murphy, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, FDR, and Dr. Jonas Salk, just to name a few. Anthony also met his great-grandfather at Ellis Island in 1907.

Class included all of Anthony’s adventures in the new book, along with dozens of amazing photographs and transcripts of Anthony’s conversations with the people of the past. The book also includes extraordinary resources for teachers: lists of hundreds of books, movies, music, and places to visit. The lists enable readers to see, hear, and experience the things that Anthony did, without the need for a time machine. The book is recommended for young adults in grade 6 to grade 12, but adults will treasure the keepsake-quality book, too.
“Whether or not you believe that Anthony really traveled into the past,” insists Class, “the book’s message is an important one. History is not just a bunch of boring names and dates. History is alive with adventure. History is full of moral lessons for today. Anthony learned that the heroes of the past have something important to tell us: that the purpose of life is to live a life of purpose, and doing the right thing always matters.”

Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame ($35) is available at www.MagicPictureFrame.com, or by calling toll-free: 1-800-247-6553. The book is also available at select bookstores and on amazon.com.

The book is published by Magic Picture Frame Studio, a new publishing company in the Pacific Northwest, dedicated to telling the stories of the past to the children of today in exciting new ways. Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame is the first book in a planned series of historical time-travel adventures.

Note to editors and book reviewers: The author is available for interviews. Photographs and review copies are available.

Contact: Michael S. Class, 425-222-7562, class@MagicPictureFrame.com, Magic Picture Frame Studio, P.O. Box 2603, Issaquah, WA 98027-0119.