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This is a popular misconception. Edison was never at Luna Park and the electrocution of Topsy took place 10 years after the war of the currents had already ended. Edison was, in fact, no longer attached to General Electric, which had formed from a merger between Edison General Electric Company and the Thomson-Houston Electric Company in 1892 ...
The war of the currents was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s. It grew out of two lighting systems developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s; arc lamp street lighting running on high-voltage alternating current (AC), and large-scale low-voltage direct current (DC) indoor incandescent lighting ...
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.
E. B. C. Jones (15 April 1893 – 30 June 1966) was the pen name of British writer Emily Beatrix Coursolles ("Topsy") Jones, whose novels focused on the social and psychological traumas of World War I, on large-family dynamics among young adult siblings, and on relationships among the young "liberated" middle-class intelligentsia of the Twenties.
The Current War [a] is a 2017 American historical drama film inspired by the 19th-century competition between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over which electric power delivery system would be used in the United States (often referred to as the "war of the currents").
Jean Adamson, MBE, (née Bailey; 29 February 1928 – 15 December 2024) was a British writer and illustrator of children's books.She was best known for the Topsy and Tim books, the first of which was published in 1960 and which have sold 27 million copies.
The following is a list of episodes of the Topsy and Tim live-action children's series that was shown on the BBC's CBeebies television channel between 2013 and 2015. The programmes were based on the Topsy and Tim books written by Jean Adamson and Gareth Adamson in the 1960s and 1970s.
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