[sparky_z]

You may be relieved to know that Edison never killed an elephant. The elephant's owners killed it and held a barbaric public event. Employees of the Edison Film Company filmed the event, as a sort of early newsreel (one among many around that time), which is how Edison's name got associated with it. But Edison himself was completely uninvolved, and his company did nothing to bring the event about. The notion that this was some sort of public demonstration against DC current is a complete myth. For one thing, it took place a decade after the war of the currents.

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

[derbOac]

Not to undermine your clarifying the truth, it's worth pointing out some of the confusion about that episode probably stems from some of what transpired during the war of the currents. The reason people falsely remembered it as a demonstration against AC is probably in part because it resembled things done in demonstration against AC:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_P._Brown

In other words, not elephants, but other animals.

[joemazerino]

Damn, that is morbid.