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The chair has its own circuit, separate from the prison's - but it
does feed off the public grid. Prison officials pull the switches or
push the buttons.
The axe murderer, William Kemmler, was the first to be electrocuted in
Auburn State Prison, New York, on August 6, 1890. By 1972 the
chair was adopted by 25 states and the District of Columbia. More than
4300 inmates, including dozens of women, were "grilled" by the device
in the United States. Only 11 of the 38 states that currently allow
the death penalty still use the chair, though - and only 3 of those as
an exclusive method of execution, as do the Philippines and China.
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa102497.htm
http://www.albany.edu/~brandon/sparky.html
http://www.geocities.com/trctl11/chair.html
Electronic Mail
Both Electronic Mail and Instant Messaging were available as early as
1965. Queen Elizabeth of Britain sent her first email in 1976.
Users were sharing files - by placing them into common directories -
even earlier (in 1961). The system was known as CTSS (Compatible
Time-Sharing System). It was modified by Louis Pouzin, Glenda
Schroeder, and Pat Crisman, Tom van Vleck and Noel Morris at the
beginning of 1965 to include a MAIL command.
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