The Electric Chair and Thomas Edison
The great inventor and a very dirty PR campaign
Greetings Gold and Silver Level Templars! Thomas Edison was a great inventor and a ruthless business operator. So ruthless in fact that he tried to discredit a competing electricity generating operator by ensuring that his version of an electric current was used to power the electric chair - a new fangled method of execution.
The 1880s saw intense compet…
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