Is it true when electricity was invented, they killed an elephant with it to demonstrate how dangerous it is?

Would they ever do that today? Demonstrate the danger of something buy publicly killing an elephant for everyone to see in the middle of New York City?Is it true when electricity was invented, they killed an elephant with it to demonstrate how dangerous it is?
Not true.





@Is it true when electricity was invented, they killed an elephant with it to demonstrate how dangerous it is?
Well first of all, electricity wasn't invented, it was discovered. So anyway, Edison was pushing for DC (direct current) to be used in households, but his main competitor was pushing for AC (alternating current) to be used in households and AC was actually cheaper and safer than DC, but of course Edison wasn't going to admit that. So he put the elephant in the electric chair and killed it using excessive amounts of electricity through the AC current. This, of course, convinced everybody that AC was dangerous, and DC was used in households. Now we use AC. And they probably wouldn't do that now. They would probably use bread or steak now.
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding or 2 going on.





Your biggest misstep is saying ';..electricity was invented..'; Man didn't invent electricity any more than he invented the tortoise. Of course, we discovered it, and developed methods to control it.





But unless some circus praying on the ignorance of the common folk went around electrocuting pachyderms, the story you tell is not something in the canon of history concerning electricity and mankind.





And your ';Islam'; comment...well, that one doesn't help your case for being an educated human either. Islam is a set of ideas that are not, in and of themselves, dangerous. Hatred is dangerous, and people who use religion to garner control in the name of this hatred...that's dangerous. Being ignorant to the true nature of such a religion, that's dangerous.





What is absolutely amusing to see, is that when you strip out the context from Islam, and place it next to Christianity (also, without context), the two are so remarkably similar that very few people would be able to tell them apart.
Not when it was invented, no. Edison's main competition were puching AC (alternating current). Edison was pushing DC (direct). To show how bad AC was Edison acquired Topsy, an elephant who had killed 3 trainers. Fortunately, she was drugged before her ';execution';. You can watch it on YouTube. It took place in Coney Island, the middle of NYC denotes Times Square.





Incidentally, the way you can tell what kind of current someone is being electrocuted with is with AC the person will shake, with DC the person stiffens.





Would they do it today? No.





And then you had to throw that in.
No, because electricity was not invented.

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