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‘Topsy’, The Indian Elephant, Electrocuted With 6,600 Volts, In 1903, In New York, While Being Filmed (With Thomas Edison Complicit).

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by Anura Guruge
on July 13, 2021

Click to ENLARGE & read here. Click here to access ‘Wikipedia‘ entry.
This the book that told me about ‘Topsy’. Click image to access Amazon listing.

IF I had heard about this horrific execution of an elephant previously, it had not registered. I knew about the horses & dogs that had been electrocuted in the ‘AC/DC‘ wars to prove that AC will kill whereas DC was safe (though this was (& is) not the case). The electrocution of this ‘poor’ elephant (though it is SAID she killed three trainers) was news to I. I heard about it, with shock, this morning, while listening to “Tom McNichol’s” ‘AC/DC’ book (shown above). WOW.

The book also details in extremely gory details the dozens of innocent dogs that were horribly tortured & killed by the DC camp — Thomas Edison behind all of animal cruelty from the start! Yes, it all led to the development of the AC-powered ‘electric chair’. But, Edison’s DC scheme failed in the end. The AC won the day (though the book outlines how DC is making a comeback).

Watch the movies. Some of the FIRST to have been made — with a camera invented by Edison. That part is cool.