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The smoke rises under each of the legs of the animal wearing copper soles. A few seconds later, the enormous mass staggered, tilted, and collapsed. In front of Thomas Edison's camera, on January 4, 1903, the elephant Topsy, guilty of having killed a man, died, crossed by an alternating current of 6,000 volts.
What prompted Edison to immortalize the circu…
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