Edison & the electric chair /
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| Format: | Llibre |
| Idioma: | English |
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Camberwell., Victoria :
Penguin Books Australia,
c2003.
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Taula de continguts:
- Prologue. Edison on the witness stand
- 1. Early sparks
- 2. The inventor
- 3. Light
- 4. Electricity and life
- 5. 'Down t0 the last penny'
- 6. Wiring New York
- 7. The hanging ritual
- 8. The death penalty commission
- 9. George Westinghouse and the rise of alternating current
- 10. The electrical execution law
- 11. " A desperate fight'
- 12. 'Criminal economy"
- 13. Condemned
- 14. Showdown
- 15. The unmasking of Harold Brown
- 16. Pride and reputation
- 17. The electric wire panic
- 18. Designing the electric chair
- 19. The conversion of William Kemmler
- 20. The first experiment
- 21. After Kemmler
- 22. The end of the battle of the currents
- 23. The age of the electric chair
- Epilogue: the new spectacle of death.