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Essig, Mark Regan,
1969-
Edison & the electric chair :
a story of light and death /
Mark Essig.
Edison and the electric chair.
New York :
Walker & Company,
2005.
358 p. :
ill. ;
21 cm.
Reprint. Originally published: c2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-340) and index.
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 -- George Westinghouse and the rise of alternating current -- The electrical execution law -- "A desperate fight" -- "Criminal economy" -- Condemned -- Showdown -- The unmasking of Harold Brown -- Pride and reputation -- The electric wire panic -- Designing the electric chair -- The conversion of William Kemmler -- The first experiment -- After Kemmler -- The end of the battle of the currents -- The age of the electric chair -- The new spectacle of death.
20200101.
Edison, Thomas A
Thomas Alva
1847-1931.
Electrocution
United States
History.