RE: Which one's the turkey ?

More Fun with Electric Current...

 
Thomas Edison was a proponent of Direct Current, while his rival Westinghouse pushed for the use of Alternating Current.
 
In an effort to discredit Westinghouse, Edison performed demonstrations of the "dangers" of Westinghouse's design by killing various animals -- including an elephant -- with Alternating Current..
 
When the Electric Chair was proposed as a method of execution, a term for the process had not been decided upon. 

Edison suggested "Westinghousing"

 http://www.capitalcentury.com/1907.html

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Robert Bendesky <bob_bendesky@hotmail.com> wrote:

 
This year marks the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth.
 
Franklin, the tenth son of a soap maker, received very little formal schooling growing up. He was later apprenticed to his older brother, a printer, which gave him the opportunity to read books. Franklin was always curious and eager to learn. This curiosity drove his experiments with electricity, which made him famous as a scientist.

In December 1750, Franklin learned one lesson the hard way, when he shocked himself while trying to electrocute a holiday turkey.
 
Franklin believed electrocuting the turkey made it uncommonly tender. 
  
  
full at:
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200612/history.cfm

 

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