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Despite having been an avowed opponent of the death penalty, Edison threw his laboratory resources and reputation behind the creation of a very different sort of device--the electric chair.
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To my parents, Dorothy and John Essig.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
"Mr. Edison, what is your calling - your profession?" "Inventor."
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Life in the Menlo Park laboratory partakes more of the character of a camp pitched near the battlefield than of anything else. - reporter
One rainy day afternoon before the official start-up of the Edison system, a policeman ran into the Pearl Street station and said there was trouble at the corner of Ann and Nassau Streets. Edison rushed to the spot, where a wet patch of pavement was giving electric shocks, and a large crowd had gathered to await the next unwary passerby.
An hundred persons are made worse, where one is made better by a public execution. - 1826
When I go to church, I cannot help thinking whether its walls do not sometimes echo, "Strangle and kill in the name of God!" - Walt Whitman
During the same years that pain became unacceptable, the public grew more fascinated with violence and death...Horror writing had not existed in the pre-modern world, when physical torment was an accepted part of everyday life. But when suffering became obscene, the stage was set for a pornography of pain.
Your points are well taken, and though I would join heartily in an effort to totally abolish capital punishment, I at the same time realize that while the system is recognized by the State, it is the duty of the latter to adopt the most humane method available for the purpose of disposing of criminals under sentence of death. - Edison to Southwick, Nov 1887
In 1896 a white boy at a southern fair paid a nickel to hear the Edison phonograph and was treated to a recording of two black men being burned alive.
The humor magazine Puck offered a backhanded defense: "Edison is not a humbug. He is a man of a type common enough in this country-- a smart, persevering, sanguine, ignorant, show-off American. He can do a great deal and he thinks he can do everything." (p. 49-50)
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
In the image of a young child - with 'the lightest pressure of the finger - pushing a button to end a man's life,' he captured the true terror of the electric chair: When killing is made scientific, when it is made easier, it becomes not less but more horrifying.
Despite having been an avowed opponent of the death penalty, Edison threw his laboratory resources and reputation behind the creation of a very different sort of device--the electric chair.
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