Author of the new book, Edison & the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death, Mark Essig joins Guest Host Patt Morrison to discuss the race to define which electric current would take hold in ...
Edison on the witness stand -- Early sparks -- The inventor -- Light -- Electricity and life -- "Down to the last penny" -- Wiring New York -- The hanging ritual -- The Death Penalty Commission -- ...
On this day, Aug. 6, 1890, William Kemmler, a Buffalo, N.Y. man who murdered his wife with an ax, became the first person to die in the electric chair. Edison promoted direct current, or DC, for power ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. One of the earliest prototypes of Thomas Edison's electric chair was controversially tested on a number of animals, including a circus elephant ...
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