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  1. 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.
    youtu.be/Y0rchcd7wAI

    #histsci #physics #HistoryOfScience

    @histodons

  2. 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.
    youtu.be/Y0rchcd7wAI

    #histsci #physics #HistoryOfScience

    @histodons

  3. 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.
    youtu.be/Y0rchcd7wAI

    #histsci #physics #HistoryOfScience

    @histodons

  4. 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.
    youtu.be/Y0rchcd7wAI

    #histsci #physics #HistoryOfScience

    @histodons

  5. 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.
    youtu.be/Y0rchcd7wAI

    #histsci #physics #HistoryOfScience

    @histodons