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An image from Thomas Edisons film, Electrocuting an Elephant, 1903
An image from Thomas Edisons film, Electrocuting an Elephant, 1903


2006-11-09 - New York, United States , James Pressley

The day Thomas Edisons men electrocuted an elephant. Edison sent his men to Coney Island in 1903 to use AC to execute Topsy, a rogue elephant that had killed handlers. Bombarded with 6,000 volts, Topsy crashed to the ground, dead in 10 seconds. A new Edison invention, the movie camera, captured the moment for posterity. Both episodes are recorded in crisp detail in "The Money Men" and "AC/DC," lively new accounts of brawls that shaped two keystones of American enterprise: the dollar and electric...



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