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From: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: net.analog,net.physics
Subject: Re: Tesla anyone?
Message-ID: <613@mako.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 20:02:19 EST
Article-I.D.: mako.613
Posted: Fri Mar  1 20:02:19 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 08:19:36 EST
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Reply-To: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Summary: 

In article <406@hou2g.UUCP> stekas@hou2g.UUCP (J.STEKAS) writes:
>The Tesla(AC)-Edison(DC) feud was long and bitter...  No dirty trick was too
>low for Edison to employ on his own behalf.  He... promolgated the idea that
>AC was dangerous.  He and his cohorts even had the electric chair at
>Sing-Sing prison wired with AC to emphasize its "lethal" nature!
>
The story I heard was that the first person to sit in that particular chair
lived through several attempts, and it was this ghastly experience (to
Edison's chagrin) that finally won the war in favor of AC for power and DC
for electric chairs!  (I think I read all this in a Popular Electronics
article -- can anyone verify?)
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