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29 Oct 2007, 9:44 pm
The proposal to use electricity provoked legal wrangles between the Edison and Westinghouse companies which promoted, respectively, direct and alternating current.Following the first electrocution in 1890, Dr Alfred Southwick, the chair of the commission which recommended the electric chair, was reported as saying that "we live in a higher civilisation from this day"(5) though Thomas Edison reportedly "rebuked the doctors and said it was a mistake to have let them handle the… [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 9:22 am by Schachtman
  Selikoff was an assistant attending physician for thoracic diseases in the department of thoracic diseases at Mt. [read post]
4 Feb 2019, 6:00 am by Lev Sugarman
Allen and conversation with Thomas Wright. [read post]
22 May 2023, 5:16 am by Roger Parloff
The most onerous sentences so far have been those meted out to former New York police officer Thomas Webster and welder Peter Schwartz—10 years and just over 14 years (170 months), respectively. [read post]