Some other wonderful things about Tom you may not know....


1887 - Edison conducts demonstration in West Orange, New Jersey, in which he kills large numbers of
cats and dogs by luring the animals onto a metal plate wired to a 1,000 volt AC generator. The press
describes these proceedings in detail.

1887 - Edison publishes pamphlet A Warning, comparing AC and DC, including of AC victims. (because Tesla was showing him up....)

...and then, later...(on what happens to be my own freekin' B-day)
June 4, 1888 - New York Legislature passes Chapter 489 of Laws of New York of 1888 establishing
electrocution as the state's method of execution. Medico-Legal Society of New York is designated to
recommend how to implement new law.


soo. upvote for some rollicking footage, taken by the inventor of such bullshit as, the light bulb, the eye-poppin'-out-wathcer's-society-of America, and the "Charge the World For Energy" invention of, power and money, and ego.......oh wait, Thomas Edison was a great innovator, and humanitarian......."Fuck Thomas Edison!", he and his cronies are why we pay for electricity now.....instead of gathering it to us from the ether.......god bless Nikola Tesla...(maybe god will let him put OPEC in a chair later........

and sorries, bout pissin' on the campfire,....Edison was an asshole....

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