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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