[EPUB] Edison and the Electric Chair || A Story of Light and Death
Name: Edison and the Electric ChairA Story of Light and Death
Author : Mark Essig
Table of Contents :
Prologue : Edison on the
Witness Stand
Chapter 1 : Early
Sparks
Chapter 2 : The
Inventor
Chapter 3 : Light
Chapter 4 : Electricity and
Life
Chapter 5 : "Down to the
Last Penny"
Chapter 6 : Wiring New
York
Chapter 7 : The Hanging
Ritual
Chapter 8 : The Death
Penalty Commission
Chapter 9 : George
Westinghouse and the Rise of Alternating Current
Chapter 10 : The Electrical
Execution Law
Chapter 11 : "A Desperate
Fight"
Chapter 12 : "Criminal
Economy"
Chapter 13 : Condemned
Chapter 14 : Showdown
Chapter 15 : The Unmasking
of Harold Brown
Chapter 16 : Pride and
Reputation
Chapter 17 : The Electric
Wire Panic
Chapter 18 : Designing the
Electric Chair
Chapter 19 : The Conversion
of William Kemmler
Chapter 20 : The First
Experiment
Chapter 21 : After
Kemmler
Chapter 22 : The End of the
Battle of the Currents
Chapter 23 : The Age of the
Electric Chair
Epilogue : The New
Spectacle of Death
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