6 results for "Thomas Edison Chair" between $0 and $480

Craftsmen at Eustis Chair use the very same construction techniques as the original, and have re-created a chair that can truly meet the test of time. The Eustis Chair factory, located in Ashburnham, Massachusetts (the birthplace of American chair manufacturing), furnished Harvard University with 650 Thomas Edison Chairs for the restoration of Memorial Hall, creating what is arguably the most beautiful college dining hall in America. (Measures: Height: 34”; Seat Height: 18.5”; Width: 17.5”; Depth...

In 1882, Thomas Edison ushered in the “age of electricity” when he illuminated Manhattan’s Pearl Street with his direct current (DC) system. Six years later, George Westinghouse lit up Buffalo with his less expensive alternating current (AC). The two men quickly became locked in a fierce rivalry, made all the more complicated by a novel new application for their product: the electric chair. When Edison set out to persuade the state of New York to use Westinghouse’s current to execute condemned...

Tracing the origins and development of the electric chair, a story of industrial and political intrigue describes the battle between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse for commercial control of electricity, the first use of electricity to execute a criminal, the legal battle that ensued over the punishment, and its long-term implications for the capital punishment debate. 20,000 first printing.