The original and first electric chair that was used to execute a prisoner
Brain Storm
The Death Penalty, Return of the Electric Chair, Lethal Injection, and the Question of Revenge
The electric chair was conceived by a dentist in 1881 in Buffalo, New York, after testing differing devices with and without water on stray dogs and later horses. And its use as a form of capital punishment evolved, at least in part, out of the “war of currents” debate between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse—in which Westinghouse argued in favor of the use of Alternating Current (AC) while Edison argued in favor of Direct Current (DC) for differing purposes.
