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[–] derram ago 

https://archive.is/WbINm | :

“Great God, he is alive!” The first man executed by electric chair died slower than Thomas Edison expected. - The Washington Post

'Southwick, apparently a very persistent dentist, wrote Edison again a month later. '

'Four minutes later, Kemmler was really dead. '

'Edison made sure that Westinghouse’s alternating current was chosen by secretly funding another electricity engineer to quickly build the device. '

'Edison and Westinghouse, each trying to win lucrative electricity contracts, were fighting over which current was safer. '

'Then he motioned for someone to flip the switch.“His shoulders slowly drew up as they sometimes do in the case of a man who is hanging,” a coroner later wrote. '

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