From: Joost van de Griek (joost_at_jvdg.net)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 05:56:12 PDT
On 2003-05-06 14:25, Anton Aylward wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 07:18, Joost van de Griek wrote:
>> On 2003-05-06 13:03, Karel Jansens wrote:
>
>>> There is no technology to pick locks, crack safes or murder people. There is
>>> technology that can be used to do all those things, but the same technology
>>> can be used to save people's lives as well.
>>
>> You are of course right. Electric chairs were not designed to kill. :-/
>
> Indeed.
> They were designed as a marketing tool by Edison to discourage people
> from using his competitor's (i.e. Telsa's) alternating current and to
> use his direct current instead.
<http://www.skepticfiles.org/urban/electric.htm>
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