January 4, 1903: Killer Elephant Topsy Executed in Filmed Spectacle!
January 4, 2019
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as posted by the channelOn January 4, 1903, Thomas Edison’s company filmed the execution of Topsy the Elephant, the largest purported casualty in the “War of the Currents”!
This documentary-style video was created primarily for my students when we cover technological developments in the late 1800s and early 1900s in our American, Western, and World History courses.
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