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Executioner's current : Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the invention of the electric chair
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Executioner's current : Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the invention of the electric chair

作者： Richard Moran
出版商： New York : A.A. Knopf, 2002.
版本/格式：  圖書 : 英語 : 1st ed檢視所有的版本和格式
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Traces the origins and development of the electric chair, the battle between Edison and Westinghouse for commercial control of electricity, the first electrocution, the legal battle that ensued, and its long-term effects.
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提及的人： Thomas A Edison; George Westinghouse; Thomas A Edison; George Westinghouse
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所有的作者/貢獻者： Richard Moran
ISBN: 0375410597 9780375410598
OCLC系統控制編碼： 50792338
描述： xxii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
内容： "William, it is time" --
The battle of the currents: Edison versus Westinghouse, DC versus AC --
The new electrical execution law --
Harold Brown and the "executioner's current" --
"I'll take the rope": the life, crime, and trial of William Kemmler --
Unusually cruel punishment --
Neither cruel nor unusual punishment --
Kemmler's legacy: the search for a humane method of execution.
責任： Richard Moran.
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Traces the origins and development of the electric chair, the battle between Edison and Westinghouse for commercial control of electricity, the first electrocution, the legal battle that ensued, and its long-term effects.

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