Executioner's current : Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the invention of the electric chair / Richard Moran.
Moran, Richard.
2002
HV8696 .M67 2002 (Mapit)
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Executioner's current : Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the invention of the electric chair / Richard Moran.
Author
Moran, Richard.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0375410597
Publication Details
New York : A.A. Knopf, 2002.
Language
English
Description
xxii, 271 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HV8696 .M67 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.66
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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