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On 4 Jan. 1903, Thomas Edison electrocuted Topsy the circus elephant to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current electricity.

Topsy had killed one trainer (who had burned the elephants with lit cigarettes), and was aggressive to 2 other trainers (who had prodded her with pitchforks) and was deemed unsafe.

Thomas Edison agreed to execute the elephant as part of his campaign to discredit his rival Westinghouse.

Edison was a proponent of direct current electricity and had refused to accept the superiority of AC technology when it was presented to him by Nikola Tesla. Westinghouse bought some of Tesla’s patents, however, and began installing AC generators around the country. Edison believed them to be dangerous predicting, ““Westinghouse will kill a customer within 6 months.”

In 1890, William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in an electric chair, and Edison argued that the Westinghouse AC current was the most effective method. He even coined a term for the execution. The convicted criminals would be “Westinghoused.”

Westinghouse had contributed $100,000 toward legal fees for Kemmler’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, and unsuccessfully argued that death in the electric chair amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.

Topsy was killed with 6,000 volts of AC current and Edison filmed the elephants death as part of his campaign against Westinghouse.