Don't forget that Edison wasn't confident enough in DC to sell it on its own merits
He'd go around and make a big show about dangerous AC was by publicly executing animals (and one condemned inmate if I recall correctly) using devices running on AC
P.T. Barnum also sold tickets to the autopsy of the old black woman he paraded around as the oldest woman alive
He drummed up crowds by putting false claims in newspapers that the woman was an elaborate ruse, accomplished with a rubber skin, whale bones and various cogs and gears for motion
I don't even really want to get into what he did when he opened his circus museum
Don't forget that Edison wasn't confident enough in DC to sell it on its own merits
He'd go around and make a big show about dangerous AC was by publicly executing animals (and one condemned inmate if I recall correctly) using devices running on AC
Dude was cold-blooded
What a loathsome man :owl-pissed:
The three big businessmen that I was taught to find impressive
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
P.T. Barnum
All massive pieces of shit, actively made life worse for a lot of people
Don't forget Walt Disney
I hope his frozen head thaws out before they come up with a cure for cutting your head off and freezing it
and two of them murdered elephants
P.T. Barnum also sold tickets to the autopsy of the old black woman he paraded around as the oldest woman alive
He drummed up crowds by putting false claims in newspapers that the woman was an elaborate ruse, accomplished with a rubber skin, whale bones and various cogs and gears for motion
I don't even really want to get into what he did when he opened his circus museum
Jesus fucking christ!!!
He electrocuted an elephant right? I remember seeing that in Bob's Burgers
The video of that is public domain and is horrifying