Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair

Business History Review | April 1, 2004| | Copyright

Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair. By Richard Moron. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. xxii + 271 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN 0-375-41059-7.

Richard Moran's Executioner's Current is one of three recent books that examine how the effort to find a more humane form of capital punishment intersected with the "battle of the currents," whose leading antagonists were Thomas Edison, proponent of the direct-current (DC) electric system, and George Westinghouse, champion of the alternating-current (AC) electric ...

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