Claim: Locked in a war with Westinghouse over which of them would control the future of electric power, Edison worked to discredit his rival's alternating current with claims that it was unsafe — so unsafe that it could be used to kill people
Fact-check: Edison Electric Chair
Verdict: true
Organisation: Snopes
Author: Barbara Mikkelson
Date published: 1998-12-31T12:00:00