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Default OT Killing your wife

On Jun 20, 10:57�pm, Metspitzer wrote:
I was watching a BBC show called "Light Fantastic" �Part of the show
shows how Edison was trying to build a market for electricity. �It
showed many appliances such as the vacuum cleaner, kitchen mixer and
the phonograph.

They then showed a logo sign that read.........Don't kill your wife
with work! �Let electricity do it.


Edison believed DC was safer. Westinghouse was his BIG competitor.

When the country moved from hanging to electrocution for prisoners
sentenced to death........

Edison called it westinghousing them........

AC still won out as the power for the nation