Download Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P. T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison AudioBook Free
In 1903 at the soon-to-open Luna Recreation area on Coney Island, an elephant known as Topsy was electrocuted, likely with advice from Thomas Edison,whose film staff recorded the awful event. Within the last century, this bizarre, ghoulish execution has reverberated through popular culture with the ring of an urban legend. But it really happened, now, Edison's footage are available on YouTube, where it's been viewed almost two million times. Many historical makes conspired to bring Topsy, Edison, and the ones 6,600 volts of alternating current along at Coney Island that day. Journalist Michael Daly's Topsy is a remarkable popular record that traces them, from the climb of the circus in the us and the lives of circus elephants, through Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the conflict of the currents, to the birth of Coney Island.
