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• Regional: North America: United States: Tennessee: Regions: Northeast Tennessee: Society and Culture: History and Genealogy: Elephant Hanging  (6)

• RailwayBridge: Topsy - Features a January 1903 newspaper account.
• Roadside Pet Cemetery: Topsy, Electrocuted by Edison - Article about the death of Topsy.
• Voltini: Edison and the Elephant - Photos and MPEG video of the electrocution of Topsy.
• YouTube: Electrocuting an Elephant - Streaming video of the 1903 Kinescope made by Thomas Edison.

• BBC News: New York honours electrocuted elephant - The Coney Island Museum unveils a memorial to an elephant electrocuted a century ago by Thomas A Edison. (July 21, 2003)
• City Lore: They Didn't Forget - New York Times article by Tom Vanderbilt about the new memorial for Topsy. (July 13, 2003)

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