Who
was Edison? I mean we all know that he had discovered bulb, he
was affair of dark, he was a devoted engineer. But there was a other
side of the Edison, a dark side.
Edison was grown up in poverty, he belongs to a very poor family.
Soon after his graduation, he worked hard and discovered bulb which was a true
example of his devotion. The design still used for making
the bulbs is all the same as he invented it.
When he discovered the bulb, he start selling them and
eventually became a businessmen. And as we know where there is
profit, there is competition. Same was the case
with Edison Edison was supporting dc current which
was pity expensive procedure and also less reliable. The other
person who stood as a competition was Westinghouse he was supporting
the AC current on the same project. The ac current requires
a pity less amount of money and easy to be used. People
started to rely on the ac current to light their houses.
When Edison came to know that he was losing, He became frustrated and
furious. He used the only single disadvantage available of the ac current.
He start killing animals(he have killed birds, rabbits and pigs) by giving them
electric shock. People start turning against the ac current. But this was not
enough.
Then
came the final opportunity. A man named William calmer has murdered
his girl friend. He have killed her brutally using an ax 50
shots).The court sentenced him to death. And somehow they reached
to Edison and asked him can this experiment of his could be
performed on humans also.
The Edison said Yes. So they tied the man to a metallic chair,
made him wear a helmet made of conducting metal. And start giving him electric
shocks but the plan didn't worked as they have expected it to. See
our body is a conductor ,so when a huge amount of the electric
current pass through our body, it starts burning our tissues, So in the manner
to kill a human one have to pass a really high amount of electric
current at a constant rate for some time(Depends on the amount of
current) . But certainly they haven't measured the current or were
unaware of the amount of charge which they should pass.
Resulting the victim survived the first time, making him mentally unstable.
It took them 8 minuets to kill him. It was slow and painful death.
But the Edison won his final race, Westinghouse was lost.
