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To: gooblah

“You Can Be Sure If It’s Westinghouse”

You have be quite old to get the reference.


13 posted on 03/14/2014 8:07:58 PM PDT by OldPossum ("It's" is the contraction of "it" and "is"; think about ITS implications.)
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To: OldPossum
“You Can Be Sure If It’s Westinghouse”

You have be quite old to get the reference.

War of the Currents? AC vs DC?

In 1903, Westinghouse's rival, Thomas Edison, made a movie of the electrocution with high voltage AC, supervised by Edison employees, of Topsy, a Coney Island circus elephant which had recently killed three men.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmslGfaNls

25 posted on 03/15/2014 12:36:08 AM PDT by cynwoody
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