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This Morbid Invention: The First Electric Chair
The harnessing of electricity by the great inventors of the Gilded Age introduced the world to the miracle of light at all hours of the day. But exposure to electricity's raw power was dangerous to man and a few thought...
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This Morbid Invention: The First Electric Chair is an episode from The First: Stories of Inventions and their Consequences by Greg Young. The harnessing of electricity by the great inventors of the Gilded Age introduced the world to the mir...
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Published Jan 27, 2017, 27:48 long, audio available.
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