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To: DogByte6RER

Never heard of this one...there’s an infamous movie in existence of another mankiller elephant that was executed by electrocution.


4 posted on 05/24/2012 2:46:00 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: M1903A1

At Coney Island they electrocuted and elephant that killed a person. It was highly advertised at the time and was set up by Thomas Edison’s company. At the time we were at a crossroads between a national electrical grid of DC or AC. Edison wanted DC, his invention. So the whole electrocution of the elephant at Coney Island was to demonstrate the dangers of AC power.


10 posted on 05/24/2012 3:31:01 PM PDT by TheShaz
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