Ciekawostka: The electric chair was invented by a dentist

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Alfred Porter Southwick (May 18, 1826 – June 11, 1898) was a steam-boat engineer, dentist and inventor from Buffalo, New York. He is credited with inventing the electric chair as a method of legal execution. He was also a professor at the University of Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, now known as the State University of New York at Buffalo.

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An electric chair (also known as an electrical chair or execution chair) is a specialized device used for execution through electrocution. The condemned prisoner is strapped to a custom wooden chair and electrocuted via electrodes attached to the head and legs. Alfred P. Southwick, a dentist in Buffalo, New York, conceived this execution method in 1881. It was developed over the next decade, promoted by Southwick as a more humane alternative to conventional executions, particularly hanging. First used in 1890, the electric chair has become a symbol of capital punishment in the United States. The electric chair was once thought to cause death through cerebral damage, but it was scientificall…

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Electrocution is death or severe injury caused by electric shock from electric current passing through the body. The word is derived from "electro" and "execution", but it is also used for accidental death. The term "electrocution" was coined in 1889 in the US just before the first use of the electric chair and originally referred to only electrical execution and not other electrical deaths. However, since no English word was available for non-judicial deaths due to electric shock, the word "electrocution" eventually took over as a description of all circumstances of electrical death from the new commercial electricity.

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WHO INVENTED THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH?

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The dentist who sat on her chair and lost a leg. N2O?

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Southwick, Alfred Porter (1826-1898), mechanic, dentist, and proponent of the electric chair as a means of administering the death penalty

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New drill-free treatment helps patients to feel at ease in the dentist chair

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Leading paediatric dentist appointed as Chair of exams board

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George Edward Fell (July 10, 1849 – July 29, 1918) was an American surgeon and inventor. He was an early developer of artificial ventilation and also investigated the physiology of electrocution, a line of research that led to Fell creating the final design for the first electric chair.

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Harold Pitney Brown (September 16, 1857, Janesville, Wisconsin – 1944, Volusia, Florida) was an American electrical engineer and inventor known for his activism in the late 1880s against the use of alternating current (AC) for electric lighting in New York City and around the country (during the "war of the currents"). Brown was mostly self-educated, working for several companies in the fledgling electrical field before striking out on his own, working on his own inventions as well as hiring himself out as a consultant. After several deaths were caused by the high voltages used in alternating current arc lighting systems in New York City, Brown came to prominence in June 1888, claiming in t…

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