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Topsy (c. 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female Asian elephant who was electrocuted at Coney Island, New York, in January 1903.Born in Southeast Asia around 1875, Topsy was secretly brought into the United States soon thereafter and added to the herd of performing elephants at the Forepaugh Circus, who fraudulently advertised her as the first elephant born in the United States.
Topsy, the famous "Baby" elephant, was electrocuted at Coney Island on January 4, 1903. We secured an excellent picture of the execution. The scene opens with keeper leading Topsy to the place of execution. After copper plates or electrodes were fastened to her feet, 6,600 volts of electricity were turned on.
English: A photograph from a January 11, 1903 St. Louis Republic article about the the January 4, 1903 electrocution of Topsy the elephant in an event to raise publicity about the opening of the new Coney Island amusement park "Luna Park" (at this point still under construction). The newspaper account says that Topsy refused to cross the bridge ...
A 29-year-old Sugar Creek Township man died Tuesday from apparent electrocution while working installing lines for MCTV.
The electrocution of Topsy the Elephant was not an anti-alternating current demonstration organized by Thomas A. Edison during the war of the currents. Edison was never at Luna Park , and the electrocution of Topsy took place ten years after the war of currents. [ 93 ]
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"Topsy the Elephant Was a Victim of Her Captors, Not Thomas Edison". Smithsonian Magazine. ALT1: ... that during the construction of Coney Island's Luna Park, its owners electrocuted an elephant that helped them demolish the site? Source: Eschner, Kat (January 4, 2017). "Topsy the Elephant Was a Victim of Her Captors, Not Thomas Edison".