A few points about Edison.
He was anti-union, anti-immigrant, a racist, a German sympathizer, corrupt as all fuck and basically the worst sort of person you can imagine a brilliant inventor industrialist in the pocket of the richest man in the world to be.
Oh, and he also electrocuted elephants to prove how dangerous Nikola Tesla’s Alternating Current was versus his Direct Current. Like poor, abused Topsy at Coney Island.
Yeah. 6600 volts of AC will do that.
And just in case, they fed the damn thing 460 grams of cyanide.
That’s horrible. Fuck baldy.
And the full story….
In 1903, a circus elephant named Topsy at Coney Island’s Luna Park went berserk and killed three people including an abusive trainer, who tried to feed her a lighted cigarette.
The elephant was considered a threat and the owners wanted it executed. When animal advocates protested the proposed method of hanging, Edison saw a publicity opportunity and suggested electrocution with AC.
Topsy was fed carrots laced with cyanide and then electrocuted with 6,000-volts AC. She died “without a trumpet or a groan” within seconds.
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