Executioner's Current
Subtitle: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair
Publisher: Vintage
Published: November 11, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780375724466
First sentence: IN THE PREDAWN HOURS of August 6, 1890, twenty-seven men of law, science, and medicine left their lodgings at the Osborne House and quietly made their way down State Street toward Auburn Penitentiary.