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Executioner's Current : Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair
Executioner's Current Thomas Edison George Westinghouse and the Invention of the Electric Chair
Author: Richard Moran
The amazing story of how the electric chair developed not out of the desire for a method of execution more humane than hanging but of an effort by one nineteenth century electric company to discredit the other. — In 1882, Thomas Edison launched “the age of electricity” by lighting up a portion of Manhattan with his direct current (DC)...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375410598
ISBN-10: 0375410597
Publication Date: 10/15/2002
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
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