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Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The electric chair developed out of the effort by Thomas Edison to blacken the name of his competitor Westinghouse. Westinghouse used AC current, and Edison convinced New York state to use alternating current to electrocute a prisoner on death row. The execution was horribly botched; Moran examines the competition that led to this new use of electricity, and many other issues associated with it. b/w illustrations, Notes, Index. Published @ $25.00. …

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Hardcover. dj. pp. xxii, 271. 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good+ with a lightly shelfworn dust jacket.

HC. 275pp ISBN 0375410597 The amazing story of how the electric chair developed not out of the desire for a method of execution more humane than hanging but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the other. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, stated. A fine copy in a fine DJ, now in archival mylar wrapper. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #503.…

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First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 271 pages; Physical desc. : xxii, 271 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Notes: "A Borzoi book"Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) --Westinghouse, George (1846-1914) --Electrocution --United States --History. Summary: The amazing story of how the electric chair developed not out of the desire for a method of execution more humane than hanging but of an effort by one nineteenth century electric company to discredit the other. In 1882, Thomas Edison launched Â"the age of electricityÂ" by lighting up a portion of Manhattan with his direct current (DC) system. Six years later George Westinghouse lit up Buffalo with his less expensive alternating current (AC). They quickly became locked in a battle for market share. Richard Moran shows that Edison, in order to maintain commercial dominance, set out to blacken the image of Westinghouse's AC by persuading the State of New York to electrocute condemned criminals with AC current. Westinghouse, determined to keep AC from becoming known as the Â"executioner's current, Â" fought to stop the first electrocution, claiming that use of the electric chair constituted cruel and unusual punishment. The legal battle that ensued ended when the Supreme Court refused to rule. The electrocution of William Kemler went forward in New York's Auburn Pen-itentiary in August 1890-and was horribly botched. 1 Kg.…