[SunkenCiv]

The electrocution thing backfired -- Edison was trying to win the war of the currents, and in order to do that was trying to show that AC power was inherently unsafe. Instead, the electrocution by DC was found to be much more effective, and that's what's used today.

[blackbart.223]

"The electrocution thing backfired -- Edison was trying to win the war of the currents, and in order to do that was trying to show that AC power was inherently unsafe.

In some ways it is. At the frequency we generate A.C. it is more apt to cause cardiac arrhythmia as is D.C.. All things being equal.