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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Krowbar who wrote (47525)7/28/1999 10:23:00 AM
From: Ish  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
<<Edison said that AC current wouldn't be of any value because it didn't go anywhere. He wanted to wire the country with D.C. >>

Edison also spent a lot of effort and money to get William Wemmler executed in the electric chair to show that AC was deadly. The chair did work after a fashion. They were low on amps and instead of killing him with a massive shock the poor guy was cooked to death.
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