Everyone knows Thomas Edison, the prolific inventor behind the phonograph and the electric light bulb, but what you might not know is that he also had a knack for ideas that never quite took off. Across his lifetime, Edison held more than 2,300 patents worldwide. While some changed the course of history, others quietly disappeared, lost to time or doomed from the start. One such misstep was the eerie and ill-fated Edison Talking Doll. Embedded in each doll's tin torso was a m

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Born in Holyoke in 1912, Margaret and Mary Gibb toured with circuses across America and Europe before settling down to run a small gift shop together.