Didn't he kill an Elephant with electricity to convince that his (ac or dc) was safer than Teslas (as or dc)?Kmar wrote:
Was it Edison that tortured (to be executed) a man to prove his ideas were superior to Westinghouse?Hurricane2k9 wrote:
if Edison was retarded he would not have harnessed direct current electricity or invented the phonograph and movie camera
I think so.
I dont know if it was an elephant.. but he did something messed up like that with other animals also.Adams_BJ wrote:
Didn't he kill an Elephant with electricity to convince that his (ac or dc) was safer than Teslas (as or dc)?Kmar wrote:
Was it Edison that tortured (to be executed) a man to prove his ideas were superior to Westinghouse?Hurricane2k9 wrote:
if Edison was retarded he would not have harnessed direct current electricity or invented the phonograph and movie camera
I think so.
I dont remember the exact details of the first execution. But I know it wasn't "quick and painless".Thomas Edison furiously campaigned for the Westinghouse AC chair. He believed that no one would want the same kind of electrical service used for an "electrocution" anywhere near their house and he would win the power war.
Edison hired inventor Harold P. Brown, who had written a letter to the New York Post describing an accident where a young boy died touching an exposed telegraph wire operating on AC.
Brown and his assistant, Dr. Fred Peterson, began designing a DC electric chair for Edison. They would invite the press in to watch their experiments using dogs, horses and cows. The DC current would not kill the animals, it only tortured them. Then, they would hook them up to the AC and showed how quickly it killed them. The press gave the experiments plenty of space in their newspapers.
Dr. Peterson, still on Edison's payroll, was on the electric chair selection committee, so not surprisingly, he helped steer the committee into choosing the AC electric chair. The electrical execution law went into effect on January 1, 1889.
Westinghouse refused to sell AC generators to the New York state prison authorities. Edison went around Westinghouse and provided the AC generators the state needed.
Westinghouse paid for the first few appeals for the people sentenced to death by electrocution. The appeal was on the grounds that "electrocution was cruel and unusual punishment."
Xbone Stormsurgezz
edison was a bit of a cunt
What a sinister prick.Adams_BJ wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ0WN2lG … re=related
To prove the danger of AC electricity and its suitability for executions, Brown and Edison publicly killed many animals with AC for the press in hopes of associating alternating current with electrical death. It was at these events that the term "electrocution" was coined. The term "electrocution" originally referred only to electrical execution (from which it is a portmanteau word), and not to accidental electrical deaths. However, since no English word was available for the latter process, the word "electrocution" eventually took over as a description of all circumstances of electrical death with the new rise of commercial electricity. Most of their experiments were conducted at Edison's West Orange, New Jersey, laboratory in 1888. The demonstrations of electrocution apparently had their intended effects, and the committee adopted the AC electric chair in 1889.
The first person to be executed by the electric chair was William Kemmler in New York's Auburn Prison on August 6, 1890; the "state electrician" was Edwin F. Davis. The first 17-second passage of current through Kemmler caused unconsciousness, but failed to stop his heart and breathing. The attending physicians, Edward Charles Spitzka and Charles F. Macdonald, came forward to examine Kemmler. After confirming Kemmler was still alive, Spitzka reportedly called out, "Have the current turned on again, quick, no delay." The generator needed time to re-charge, however. In the second attempt, Kemmler was shocked with 2,000 volts. Blood vessels under the skin ruptured and bled, and the areas around the electrodes singed. The entire execution took about eight minutes. George Westinghouse later commented that "they would have done better using an axe," and a witnessing reporter claimed that it was "an awful spectacle, far worse than hanging.
Xbone Stormsurgezz
He filled multiple holes in multiple markets, consistently and over a long period.Shocking wrote:
He filled a hole in the market at the right time.
Genius and entrepreneurial skills are not the same.He was a very succesful entrepeneur, a good innovator but nowhere near the level of genius aformentioned people he gets compared to were.
Fuck Israel
Xbone Stormsurgezz
Didn't say they were the same.Dilbert_X wrote:
He filled multiple holes in multiple markets, consistently and over a long period.Shocking wrote:
He filled a hole in the market at the right time.Genius and entrepreneurial skills are not the same.He was a very succesful entrepeneur, a good innovator but nowhere near the level of genius aformentioned people he gets compared to were.
inane little opines
She looks like she has a decent rack.Kmar wrote:
One of the girls in my feed said today that 95% of the people who were saying RIP didn't know who he was before he died, I was like wtf?
Didn't say you did.Shocking wrote:
Didn't say they were the same.Dilbert_X wrote:
He filled multiple holes in multiple markets, consistently and over a long period.Shocking wrote:
He filled a hole in the market at the right time.Genius and entrepreneurial skills are not the same.He was a very succesful entrepeneur, a good innovator but nowhere near the level of genius aformentioned people he gets compared to were.
Fuck Israel
Uhh.. okay
lol
lol
inane little opines
Exactly, he was a great marketer. Like Howard Schulz, he convinced millions of people that what they really needed in their life was an overpriced version of what they may or may not have already had. He turned a commodity into a luxury item (like Fiji and Perrier did before him).Dilbert_X wrote:
He filled multiple holes in multiple markets, consistently and over a long period.Shocking wrote:
He filled a hole in the market at the right time.Genius and entrepreneurial skills are not the same.He was a very succesful entrepeneur, a good innovator but nowhere near the level of genius aformentioned people he gets compared to were.
Genius? He sold you crap that you probably didn't need, and you got down on your knees to worship him. Maybe genius was too weak of a word, perhaps demigod.
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"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
apparently he wanted to call being electrocuted "being westinghoused"Adams_BJ wrote:
Didn't he kill an Elephant with electricity to convince that his (ac or dc) was safer than Teslas (as or dc)?Kmar wrote:
Was it Edison that tortured (to be executed) a man to prove his ideas were superior to Westinghouse?Hurricane2k9 wrote:
if Edison was retarded he would not have harnessed direct current electricity or invented the phonograph and movie camera
I think so.
hemad
u jellyJay wrote:
Exactly, he was a great marketer. Like Howard Schulz, he convinced millions of people that what they really needed in their life was an overpriced version of what they may or may not have already had. He turned a commodity into a luxury item (like Fiji and Perrier did before him).Dilbert_X wrote:
He filled multiple holes in multiple markets, consistently and over a long period.Shocking wrote:
He filled a hole in the market at the right time.Genius and entrepreneurial skills are not the same.He was a very succesful entrepeneur, a good innovator but nowhere near the level of genius aformentioned people he gets compared to were.
Genius? He sold you crap that you probably didn't need, and you got down on your knees to worship him. Maybe genius was too weak of a word, perhaps demigod.
People actually bought the Mac Book Air for 1600 bucks. The man is a genius
so much jelly in this thread that it makes me wanna jam
>implying that's all he did
tbh I would rather live Jobs' life or even someone like Bill Hicks' life than a boring uneventful one.
He was from Jersey. We renamed one of our best cities after himkrazed wrote:
edison was a bit of a cunt
You're not doing a very good jobHurricane2k9 wrote:
tbh I would rather live Jobs' life or even someone like Bill Hicks' life than a boring uneventful one.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat