“All right!” Thomas Edison electrocuted an innocent, abused elephant, writes Michael Daly in new book, “Topsy.” The camera was running and recorded Topsy again trying to shake off the ...

Topsy the elephant died of electrocution on Coney Island. Many believe Topsy was a victim of the so-called War of the Currents, the battle between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison over alternating ...

Topsy the elephant was electrocuted at Luna Park Zoo on Coney Island in 1903. Captured on film by Thomas Edison, the event was one of a string of animal electrocutions Edison staged to discredit a ...

A product of this intersection was Topsy, a captured female elephant from Southeast Asia ... to have been carried out by famed inventor Thomas Edison, the New York Daily News reported in 2013.

You’ve probably heard about Thomas Edison’s infamous 1903 film where he electrocuted an elephant. It’s just as horrifying as you’d imagine. But fewer people know that this wasn’t ...

On this very day 105 years ago Thomas Edison electrocuted an elephant meant to give rides and carry heavy items on Coney Island...all in the name of science! His science. He came to Coney to prove ...

contributor and Curator of Films and Photographs at the Historical Society Joe Tropea was struck by two mysterious photographs of an elephant ... pigs as Edison attempts to perfect electrocution ...

The file, 90 seconds long, is easy to find — look for “Elephant killed by Thomas Edison with 6600 Volts ... enemy’s name as a popular term for electrocution, as in “the killer was ...

In 1903, Topsy the elephant died of electrocution on Coney Island ... During the War of the Currents, the previous century, Thomas Edison supporters had executed a number of animals, in an ...

1903: Thomas Edison stages his highly publicized electrocution of an elephant in order to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current, which, if it posed any immediate danger at all ...