Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair by Richard D. Moran

Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair

Richard D. Moran

304 pages hardcover 2002

1 edition

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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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 ...

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