"Edison was a two-bit patent thief at best with a thing for character assassination in my universe, so I'll believe it," Ray says. "By the way, you may want to check your universe's One Police Plaza at some point in New York City. Our Tesla inadvertently managed to send a fourth-dimensional communication signal that pulled a spirit of Time into the everyday world, and he built a crude containment device for it that wound up in a time capsule under the police headquarters. I don't know if that'd happen in yours but it can't hurt to check."