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Edison, animals, and the War of the Currents

In the late 1880s, Thomas Edison and his assistants did conduct laboratory experiments in which animals—mainly dogs supplied by an animal-protection society—were killed by electric current while testing a method of euthanasia. Edison’s associates later used the results in a campaign against alternating current. However, public demonstrations, including the electrocution of a dog at a press event, were conducted by activist Harold Brown; there is no evidence that Edison himself publicly executed animals in an “electric chair.” Topsy the elephant’s death in 1903 was also not his demonstration and came after the War of the Currents had ended. [1–3]

AI-згенерована синтетична історична ілюстрація (бонус, остання в порядку): апаратура AC/DC у лабораторії, без зображення тварин чи людей у небезпеці. Не є документальним фото. Prompt: “Non-graphic educational editorial illustration about the late-1880s War of the Currents and animal electrocution experiments: a period electrical laboratory with early AC and DC apparatus, an empty wooden testing platform and abstract current diagrams, no animal or human shown, no injury, no execution scene, historically inspired archival engraving, no text, clearly conceptual illustration rather than a historical photograph.”

AI-згенерована синтетична історична ілюстрація (бонус, остання в порядку): апаратура AC/DC у лабораторії, без зображення тварин чи людей у небезпеці. Не є документальним фото. Prompt: “Non-graphic educational editorial illustration about the late-1880s War of the Currents and animal electrocution experiments: a period electrical laboratory with early AC and DC apparatus, an empty wooden testing platform and abstract current diagrams, no animal or human shown, no injury, no execution scene, historically inspired archival engraving, no text, clearly conceptual illustration rather than a historical photograph.”