Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "There were flashes and small blue flames and then smoke began to curl up from where copper met foot," an excerpt from Daly's book ...

1903: Thomas Edison stages his highly publicized electrocution of an elephant in order to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current, which, if it posed any immediate danger at all, was to ...

The elephant in the room, is, well, in this case, the elephant in the room. The room in question is National Statuary Hall, the old House chamber in the U.S. Capitol. The elephant is a dead circus ...

On this very day 105 years ago Thomas Edison electrocuted an elephant meant to give rides and carry heavy items on Coney Island...all in the name of science! His science. He came to Coney to prove ...

When Thomas Edison’s film crew rolled its cameras on the triple-barreled execution of a circus elephant that combined cyanide poisoning, strangling, and 6,600 volts of electricity, the event, ...

In 1903, on Brooklyn''s Coney Island, Thomas Edison electrocuted an elephant. Moreover, he filmed it, for all to witness. Based on historic accounts, Edison''s Elephant explores the life and death of ...

I might have been a little more enthused about the statue of Thomas Edison being proposed for the U.S. Capitol building if the Ohio-born inventor hadn’t offed an elephant. Apparent animal cruelty can ...

In the late 1800s, post-War of Currents America was a place of emerging electricity and circus entertainment. A product of this intersection was Topsy, a captured female elephant from Southeast Asia, ...