[Beskz]

I think the argument was that he did precisely that. Yet history paints him as a great inventor (he was, and filed a lot of patents), and most people likely think of him as a "good/nice guy" which he may or may not have been.

[Retric]

Yea, I realized that might be the case after posting. But, it’s an ambiguous statement in context.

[Ensorceled]

Thomas Edison is notorious for doing this, so it isn’t that ambiguous.

[novia]

Hi, hello, I'm a person who didn't know, so the clarification was valuable to me.

[mixmastamyk]

For others, just about every bio of Nikola Tesla describes how poorly he was treated by Edison. Interesting reading.

[DonHopkins]

Electrocuting dogs, cats, horses, and even an elephant, says a lot more about you as a human being than the person you're trying to discredit by electrocuting dogs, cats, horses, and even an elephant.

https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/10/19/edison-publicly-torture...

https://www.wired.com/2008/01/dayintech-0104/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant

NSFL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlPYikt_qvo

[Retric]

I don't disagree with the larger point but:

"The war of the currents (sometimes called battle of the currents) was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents

Electrocuting an Elephant seems to have occurred a decade after the war of currents January 17, 1903.

[antidesitter]

Edison was not responsible for Topsy's death. That is a myth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant)#Association_w...

http://edison.rutgers.edu/topsy.htm