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6 August 1890, Auburn Prison. William Kemmler is strapped into an oak chair wired to a second-hand alternating dynamo its maker had refused to sell. Seventeen seconds; the doctors call it; his chest heaves. The war of the currents had reached its ugliest argument.
Ep. 9 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity: Tesla vs Edison, from Pearl Street to Niagara.
https://youtu.be/Y0rchcd7wAI -
6 August 1890, Auburn Prison. William Kemmler is strapped into an oak chair wired to a second-hand alternating dynamo its maker had refused to sell. Seventeen seconds; the doctors call it; his chest heaves. The war of the currents had reached its ugliest argument.
Ep. 9 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity: Tesla vs Edison, from Pearl Street to Niagara.
https://youtu.be/Y0rchcd7wAI -
6 August 1890, Auburn Prison. William Kemmler is strapped into an oak chair wired to a second-hand alternating dynamo its maker had refused to sell. Seventeen seconds; the doctors call it; his chest heaves. The war of the currents had reached its ugliest argument.
Ep. 9 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity: Tesla vs Edison, from Pearl Street to Niagara.
https://youtu.be/Y0rchcd7wAI -
6 August 1890, Auburn Prison. William Kemmler is strapped into an oak chair wired to a second-hand alternating dynamo its maker had refused to sell. Seventeen seconds; the doctors call it; his chest heaves. The war of the currents had reached its ugliest argument.
Ep. 9 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity: Tesla vs Edison, from Pearl Street to Niagara.
https://youtu.be/Y0rchcd7wAI -
6 August 1890, Auburn Prison. William Kemmler is strapped into an oak chair wired to a second-hand alternating dynamo its maker had refused to sell. Seventeen seconds; the doctors call it; his chest heaves. The war of the currents had reached its ugliest argument.
Ep. 9 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity: Tesla vs Edison, from Pearl Street to Niagara.
https://youtu.be/Y0rchcd7wAI -
She required a locked room in every house. She moved with two hundred boxes. She took the children to slaughterhouses, photographed Dali and Kirk Douglas, and left 150,000 negatives mostly undeveloped. Meet Vivian Maier: the nanny who never looked.
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She required a locked room in every house. She moved with two hundred boxes. She took the children to slaughterhouses, photographed Dali and Kirk Douglas, and left 150,000 negatives mostly undeveloped. Meet Vivian Maier: the nanny who never looked.
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She required a locked room in every house. She moved with two hundred boxes. She took the children to slaughterhouses, photographed Dali and Kirk Douglas, and left 150,000 negatives mostly undeveloped. Meet Vivian Maier: the nanny who never looked.
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She required a locked room in every house. She moved with two hundred boxes. She took the children to slaughterhouses, photographed Dali and Kirk Douglas, and left 150,000 negatives mostly undeveloped. Meet Vivian Maier: the nanny who never looked.
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29 August 1831. Faraday connects a battery to a coil on an iron ring. The needle on a second coil jumps, falls back to zero while the current still flows, and jumps the other way when he disconnects. Every generator and transformer is that ring.
Ep. 7 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity
https://youtu.be/4uA84xoB-Aw -
29 August 1831. Faraday connects a battery to a coil on an iron ring. The needle on a second coil jumps, falls back to zero while the current still flows, and jumps the other way when he disconnects. Every generator and transformer is that ring.
Ep. 7 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity
https://youtu.be/4uA84xoB-Aw -
29 August 1831. Faraday connects a battery to a coil on an iron ring. The needle on a second coil jumps, falls back to zero while the current still flows, and jumps the other way when he disconnects. Every generator and transformer is that ring.
Ep. 7 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity
https://youtu.be/4uA84xoB-Aw -
29 August 1831. Faraday connects a battery to a coil on an iron ring. The needle on a second coil jumps, falls back to zero while the current still flows, and jumps the other way when he disconnects. Every generator and transformer is that ring.
Ep. 7 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity
https://youtu.be/4uA84xoB-Aw -
29 August 1831. Faraday connects a battery to a coil on an iron ring. The needle on a second coil jumps, falls back to zero while the current still flows, and jumps the other way when he disconnects. Every generator and transformer is that ring.
Ep. 7 of How Humanity Discovered Electricity
https://youtu.be/4uA84xoB-Aw