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Electric chair and Westinghouse Electric Corporation

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Difference between Electric chair and Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Electric chair vs. Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Execution by electrocution, performed using an electric chair, is a method of execution originating in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes fastened on the head and leg. The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company.

Similarities between Electric chair and Westinghouse Electric Corporation

Electric chair and Westinghouse Electric Corporation have 6 things in common (in Unionpedia): Alternating current, Buffalo, New York, George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison, Thomson-Houston Electric Company, War of the currents.

Alternating current

Alternating current (AC) is an electric current which periodically reverses direction, in contrast to direct current (DC) which flows only in one direction.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.

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George Westinghouse

George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, gaining his first patent at the age of 19.

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.

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Thomson-Houston Electric Company

The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was a manufacturing company which was one of the precursors of the General Electric company.

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War of the currents

The war of the currents (sometimes called battle of the currents) was a series of events surrounding the introduction of competing electric power transmission systems in the late 1880s and early 1890s.

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Electric chair and Westinghouse Electric Corporation Comparison

Electric chair has 100 relations, while Westinghouse Electric Corporation has 142. As they have in common 6, the Jaccard index is 2.48% = 6 / (100 + 142).

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