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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
In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other. — In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity” when he illuminated Manh...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375724466
ISBN-10: 037572446X
Publication Date: 11/11/2003
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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