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. Six years later, George Westinghouse lit up Buffalo with his less expensive alternating current (AC).
In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity” when he illuminated Manhattan’s Pearl Street with his direct current (DC) system. 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.
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