The Electric Chair was created by a Dentist.
In 1881 Dr. Albert Southwick, a dentist and former steamboat engineer, sees an elderly drunkard touch the terminals of an electrical generator in Buffalo, New York. He is amazed at how quickly and apparently painlessly the man is killed and describes episode to friend State Senator David McMillan. McMillan then spoke to Governor David B. Hill, who asks state legislature to consider how modern day electricity might replace hanging.
Thomas Edison, however, was the one who actually invented the chair in 1882. The rest, as they say, is history.Imagine, a Dentist who didn't want to inflict pain....or DID he?
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