• Alfred Porter Southwick (May 18, 1826–June 11, 1898) was a steam-boat engineer, dentist and inventor from Buffalo, New York. He is credited with inventing...
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    the head and leg. This method of execution was conceptualized by Alfred P. Southwick, a dentist based in Buffalo, New York, in 1881. Over the following...
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    determine a new, more humane system of execution to replace hanging. Alfred P. Southwick, a member of the committee, developed the idea of putting electric...
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    arc lighting system, Alfred P. Southwick sought to develop this phenomenon into a way to execute condemned criminals. Southwick, a dentist, based his...
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  • Southwick is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alfred P. Southwick (1826–1898), American inventor Cassandra Burnell Southwick (c.1600–1660)...
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    politician Matthew Hale, and Buffalo dentist and experimenter Alfred P. Southwick. Southwick had been developing an idea since the early 1880s of using electric...
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    into effect on January 1, 1889. A Buffalo, New York dentist named Alfred P. Southwick had been developing a method using a device similar to a dental chair...
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    Edwin Southern (born 1938), U.S. – Southern blot (molecular biology) Alfred P. Southwick (1826–1898), U.S. – Electric chair Igor Spassky (born 1926), Russia...
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    editor, businesswoman Henry K. Smith, Mayor of Buffalo, 1850–51 Alfred P. Southwick, steam-boat engineer, dentist and inventor of the first electric...
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    (almost instantaneously) by the high voltages used. Buffalo dentist Alfred P. Southwick's exploration into this phenomenon would eventually lead to the invention...
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    Essig (2009), p. 135. Stross (2007), pp. 171–173. Brandon (1999), pp. 12–14. Brandon (1999), p. 21. Brandon (1999), p. 24. "Southwick, Alfred Porter". American...
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  • American electrical engineer Schuyler Wheeler produces an electric fan. Alfred P. Southwick publishes his proposals for use of the electric chair as an execution...
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    Solomon Southwick (December 25, 1773 – November 18, 1839) was an American newspaper publisher and political figure who was a principal organizer of the...
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  • Akers' clasp  •  Alberta Dental Association and College  •  Alfred Fones  •  Alfred P. Southwick  •  Alginic acid  •  Alice Timander  •  Allan G. Brodie  • ...
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  • States Postmaster General 1905–1920: Charles Phelps Norton 1922–1950: Samuel P. Capen; former Director of the American Council on Education. 1950–1954: T...
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    Gibson, Alfred, and William Pickford (1906). Association Football and the Men Who Made It. London, 4 vols.: The Caxton Publishing Company. Southwick, Michael...
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  • Jacksonian 16th March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833 Fort Plain ? George N. Southwick Republican 20th March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1899 Albany ? March 4, 1901 –...
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    harbour mouth, forming the southern boundary of the commercial harbour in Southwick, Portslade, and Hove. The Monarch's Way long-distance footpath, commemorating...
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    Joseph Smith (redirect from Wall Southwick)
    The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-46566-0.. Avery, V.T.; Newell, L.K. (1980). "The Lion...
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    John Jabez Edwin Mayall (category People from Southwick, West Sussex)
    Paisley Mayall (17 September 1813 near Oldham, Lancashire – 6 March 1901 in Southwick, West Sussex) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite...
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    The rapes may also derive from the system of fortifications devised by Alfred the Great in the late ninth century to defeat the Vikings. The Sussex rapes...
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    electric chair, a device invented in 1881 by Buffalo, New York, dentist Alfred Southwick. After nine years of development and legislation, the chair was considered...
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    1159/000287730. PMID 6878595. Yehuda R, Steiner A, Kahana B, Binder-Brynes K, Southwick SM, Zemelman S, Giller EL (1997). "Alexithymia in Holocaust survivors...
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  • Nicholas Tichborne (son of Nicholas 1547) 1554: Sir John Bruyn 1555: John of Southwick Whyte 1556: John Norton of East Tisted 1557: Sir Richard Pexsall 1558:...
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    sovereignty. In 1770, Southwick, Massachusetts, was granted independence from Westfield, Massachusetts. In May 1774, residents in southern Southwick also petitioned...
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    from the original on December 21, 2023. Retrieved December 28, 2023. Southwick, Leslie H. (2008) [1998]. Presidential Also-Rans and Running Mates, 1788...
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    Zachary (2003). Parting the desert: the creation of the Suez Canal. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 243. ISBN 0-375-40883-5. Khan 2010, pp. 60–61. Moreno 2000, pp. 39–40...
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    married Effie Southwick, a sister of Congressman George N. Southwick (1863–1912). They had one child, Margaret Julia (who married Alfred Earnest Waters)...
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  • England Barbara Snow – England Jan Sokolowski – Poland James Mortimer Southwick – US Evgeni Pavlovich Spangenberg – USSR Anders Erikson Sparrman – Sweden...
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  • Army's Field Marshal Sir Bernard 'Monty' Montgomery had been based at Southwick House, 5 miles to the north of Portsmouth. Montgomery regularly attended...
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