Name: Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair (en Inglés)
Price: 28998.00 ARS
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Author: Richard Moran
ISBN: 9780375724466

portada Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Vintage Books

Autor

Richard Moran

Año

2003

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

271

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

037572446x

ISBN13

9780375724466

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xix - c. 1800-c. 1899
Historia de américa

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

Richard Moran (Autor) · Vintage Books · Tapa Blanda

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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 Manhattan’s Pearl Street with his direct current (DC) system. Six years later, George Westinghouse lit up Buffalo with his less expensive alternating current (AC). The two men quickly became locked in a fierce rivalry, made all the more complicated by a novel new application for their product: the electric chair. When Edison set out to persuade the state of New York to use Westinghouse’s current to execute condemned criminals, Westinghouse fought back in court, attempting to stop the first electrocution and keep AC from becoming the “executioner’s current.” In this meticulously researched account of the ensuing legal battle and the horribly botched first execution, Moran raises disturbing questions not only about electrocution, but about about our society’s tendency to rely on new technologies to answer moral questions.