Science
Inventions in the 1800’s was all about the new age. Many inventions
were made because of Thomas Edison, and his use of electricity,
Inventions, like the Christmas lights. And, so was the electric chair.
The Christmas lights were invented in the early 1800’s, while the
electric chair was also made in the early 1800’s. Little kids would be
staring at the Christmas lights for hours and hours. But, the electric
chair, it would be for prisoners who had done bad things.
Pretty Christmas lights were lit up every year, for the kids to
look at. Christmas lights were invented in the 1880’s. Edison
used the “string of electric lights outside his laboratory in
Menlo Park, New Jersey.” But it was credited to Edward H.
Johnson, a friend of Edison, and president, company Edison
made to illuminate New York City. Thanks to them all the
little kids have something to look up and stair at in an awe
way.
In 1881, a New York dentist named Albert Southwick
saw a drunk accidently electrcute himself I a power generator
with no pain. Back than people used rope to kill others, or used
the guillotine. But as the years passed, and a new modern age
arised, they decide to use electric chairs as a way to punish those
that committed a crime.
George Westinghouse decided to use cats and dogs as test
subjects for the electric chair. If it did worked, than he used
humans to punish them. As the years pass by, the electric
chair is still used to punish those who did crimes, or they were
sentenced to death.
As the years go by, the new age has settled in. Now people
use technology as an everyday use. We are so use to it now,
that if something happened mostly everyone in the world
would be bored beyond belief. People back than didn’t
really use technology, since it wasn’t made until
the late 1880’s.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
http://history1800's.about.com/od/e/electricity/a/electrictyxmash.htm
http://inventors.about.com/od/hstartinventions/a/electric_chair.htm
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/capitalpunishment/p/history_chair.htm