Electric Chair Powerless to Harm Wizard (Jan, 1929)
Electric Chair Powerless to Harm Wizard
THREE hundred and fifty amperes of electric current were powerless to affect the body of Bernays Johnson, electrical wizard, shown strapped to the electric chair in which the demonstration took place. The feat was performed at the recent Aero-Radio show in Boston. The chair was of the same design as is used in the electrocution chambers of the country’s prisons, and the electrical experts shown in the picture vouch for the fact that the current actually passed through Johnson’s body.
One of the scientific explanations of Johnson’s uncanny ability to resist electric shock, is that his skin is absolutely dry, without even the tiniest beads of perspiration moisture, and that consequently his skin is a poor conductor of current.