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Executioner's current : Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the invention of the electric chair
- Title
- Executioner's current : Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the invention of the electric chair / Richard Moran.
- Author
- Moran, Richard.
- Publication
- New York : A.A. Knopf, 2002.
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 271 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "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.
- Call Number
- JFE 03-10096
- ISBN
- 0375410597
- LCCN
- 2002020539
- OCLC
- 50792338
- Author
- Moran, Richard.
- Title
- Executioner's current : Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the invention of the electric chair / Richard Moran.
- Imprint
- New York : A.A. Knopf, 2002.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 03-10096