who was the first man to die from the electric chair
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- In 1890, on August 6th, William Kemmler, who had killed his girlfriend and had been convicted to death, was the first man to die in an electric chair. The first 'electric chair' was built by Mr. Edwin Davis who was the electrician for the Auburn Prison in New York state.
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Electric chair The electric chair was adopted by Ohio (1897), Massachusetts (1900), New Jersey (1906) and Virginia (1908), and soon became the prevalent method of execution in the United States, replacing hanging. Most of the states that currently use or have used the electric chair lie east of the Mississippi River.
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Neil Armstrong dead at 82: First man to walk on the Moon passes away following heart surgery, 43 years after giant leap for mankind Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, after suffering complications from heart surgery, his family said in a statement. Earlier this month, the former NASA astronaut had undergone heart surgery.
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The First Photograph of an Execution by Electric Chair Apr 10, 2014. 1  With Tennessee Senators voting Wednesday to reinstate the electric chair to execute capital inmates, TIME looks at the first known photograph of this controversial form of capital punishment. 2  In 1925, Ruth Snyder, a housewife from Queens, New York, took a lover, Judd Gray, a corsetmaker from upstate.
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- New York state - the birth place of the electric chair. On June 4th, 1888, the New York Legislature passed Chapter 489 of Laws of New York of 1888, providing for the execution by a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death for offences committed after January 1st, 1889.
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How did Abraham Lincoln die? He died at approximately 7:22 AM the following morning, April 15, 1865. He was shot in a theatre by an assasin. Abraham Lincoln was the first president to die of assassination. He was <strong>shot in the back of his head</strong> by John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor and Confederate spy from Maryland.
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Granville Woods Granville Tailer Woods (April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910) was an African-American inventor who held more than 50 patents. He is also the first American of African ancestry to be a mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars.
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- This Day In History: 04/04/1968 - Dr. King is Assassinated. Many historical events occurred on April 4th, and Russ Mitchell recaps them in this video clip from This Day In History. President William Henry Harrison became the first US President to die while in office when his cold turned into pneumonia.
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- The first commercially-successful electric motors were made around 1873 by Zenobe Gramme, a Belgian engineer. His electric generators (dynamos) were based on machines invented … by Italian physicist Antonio Pacinotti in 1860.
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William Henry Harrison Photos: U.S. presidents: Ailing in office. William Henry Harrison, March-April 1841 – William Henry Harrison battled with dyspepsia and indigestion. Before he had been in office a month, he caught a cold that developed into pneumonia. On April 4, 1841, he became the first president to die while in office.
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"The Time Nikola Tesla Paid for His Hotel Room With a ""Death Ray""" The Time Nikola Tesla Paid for His Hotel Room With a Death Ray. Nikola Tesla was, of course, a vastly accomplished scientist and inventor. His inventions include the Tesla coil and electric oscillators, and he also developed technologies that were eventually found in X-rays, the radio, and remote controls.
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- In 1977 Gary Gilmore becomes the first person executed in the United States in ten years. Gary Gilmore is executed in Utah by a firing squad. In 1979 John Spenkelink is the second person executed in twelve years. Florida executes him in the electric chair. 1982 Texas executes Charles Brooks by lethal injection. This is the first execution by lethal injection.
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Albert Hofmann Not to be confused with Abbie Hoffman. Albert Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008) was a Swiss scientist known best for being the first person to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).ofmann was born in Baden, Switzerland, the first of four children to factory toolmaker Adolf Hofmann and his wife Elisabeth (born Elisabeth Schenk). Owing to his father's low income, Albert's godfather paid for his education.
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Wilson Greatbatch, engineer who invented implantable pacemaker, dies at 92 By T. Rees Shapiro September 28, 2011 Follow @TReesShapiro. Wilson Greatbatch, an electrical engineer who helped develop the first implantable pacemaker, a revolutionary device that since the 1960s has pumped life into millions of people, died Sept. 27 at a nursing home in Williamsville, N.Y. He was 92.He had renal failure, said his daughter Anne Maciariello.y T. Rees Shapiro September 28, 2011 Follow @TReesShapiro. Wilson Greatbatch, an electrical engineer who helped develop the first implantable pacemaker, a revolutionary device that since the 1960s has pumped life into millions of people, died Sept. 27 at a nursing home in Williamsville, N.Y. He was 92.
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History of the Wheelchair First Motorized Wheelchair-Electric Wheelchair. The first electric-powered wheelchair was invented by Canadian inventor, George Klein and his team of engineers while working for the National Research Council of Canada in a program to assist the injured veterans returning after World War II.George Klein also invented the microsurgical staple gun.ambu Productions/ Taxi/ Getty Images. It is uncertain as to what can be considered the first wheelchair, or who invented it. The first known dedicated wheelchair (invented in 1595 and called an invalids chair) was made for Phillip II of Spain by an unknown inventor.
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- Polio, which struck children disproportionately, could attack the central nervous system and cause muscle deterioration, paralysis and even death. American virologist Jonas Salk, who was born 100 years today on October 28, 1914, developed the world’s first safe and effective polio vaccine.
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Chemistry Panels Examples of common chemistry panels include: 1  Basic Metabolic Panel (BMP) – usually contains 8 tests, all of which are found in the CMP (below); provides information about the current status of a person's kidneys and respiratory system as well as electrolyte and acid/base balance and level of blood glucose.If a laboratory changes the tests in a CMP or BMP, it will usually also change the name of the panel to avoid confusion.) For a list of the tests included in each of these panels and more information, such as when they may be ordered, click on the name of the panel above to go to its full article.
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Alessandro Volta Alessandro Volta, in full Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (born February 18, 1745, Como, Lombardy [Italy]—died March 5, 1827, Como), Italian physicist whose invention of the electric battery provided the first source of continuous current.
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Lincoln's Footprints in the Senate Lincoln was at that desk in February 1848 when Congressman and former President John Quincy Adams, known as “Old Man Eloquent” for his anti-slavery speeches, suffered a stroke while seated at his desk. Adams was carried into the nearby offices of the House Speaker, where he died two days later.
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William T. G. Morton William Thomas Green Morton (August 9, 1819 – July 15, 1868) was an American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1846.The promotion of his questionable claim to have been the discoverer of anesthesia became an obsession for the rest of his life.n the autumn of 1844, Morton entered Harvard Medical School and attended the chemistry lectures of Dr. Charles T. Jackson, who introduced Morton to the anesthetic properties of ether. Morton then also left Harvard without graduating.
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- Armstrong in the lunar module Eagle on the surface of the moon. July 20, 1969. See all statements on Armstrong's death Editor's Note: See information about the Sept. 13 memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral. Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, has died, following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures.
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'Old Sparky' electric chair which executed 315 death row inmates to go on display for the first time in 80 years Old Sparky was used to execute 312 men and three women between 1897 and 1963. The last time members of the general public could see the chair was when the old Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus offered tours, which ended in the early 1930s. The prison sold postcards of the electric chair and souvenir pictures of the condemned men until it discontinued the tours. The chair replaced hanging in 1897 as Ohio's method of execution.
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- Not only can the swing be ruined by this move, it is ruined about 95 per cent of the time. The deadly moves, the most fatal flaws in the golf downswing are these: 1  Spinning the hips without moving the weight laterally,  with this spinning motion turning the right shoulderhigh toward the ball, and.
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Nikola Tesla Dies Nikola Tesla Dies. Tesla died of heart failure alone in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel, on 7 January 1943. Despite having sold his AC electricity patents, Tesla died with significant debts. Later that year the US Supreme Court upheld Tesla's patent number 645576 in a ruling that served as the basis for patented radio technology in the United States.
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- For the next 56 years, the electric chair was the last destination for murderers and gangsters in Trenton prisons death house  most notably among them, Bruno Hauptmann, the convicted killer of the Lindbergh baby.
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List of Presidents of the United States who died in office But the treatments only made Harrison worse, and he became delirious. He died nine days after becoming ill, at 12:30 am on April 4, 1841, of right lower lobe pneumonia, jaundice, and overwhelming septicemia. He was the first United States president to die in office.