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Bookmark or Share- Topsy the Elephant Was a Victim of Her Captors, Not Thomas EdisonJanuary 4, 2017. An illustration of Topsy from the St. Paul Globe on June 16, 1902. Wikimedia Commons. On this day in 1903, Topsy the elephant died of electrocution on Coney Island. Many...
- Topsy (elephant) - WikipediaTopsy (c. 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female Asian elephant who was electrocuted at Coney Island, New York, in January 1903. Born in Southeast Asia around 1875, Topsy was secretly brought into the United States soon thereafter and added to the herd of performing elephants at the Forepaugh Circus , who fraudulently advertised her as the ...
- Topsy | fictional character | BritannicaTopsy, fictional character, a slave child in the antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This article was most recently revised and updated by John M. Cunningham .
- Topsy | Definition & Meaning - Merriam-WebsterTOPSY is contained in 4 matches in Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Learn definitions, uses, and phrases with topsy.
- The Electrocution of Topsy the Elephant - Historic MysteriesElectrocution. Topsy the Elephant was a female Asian elephant who was executed by electrocution for public audiences to watch. Thomas Edison is often tied to the cruel murder of Topsy, the elephant, because among the press invited to watch Topsy’s execution was the Edison Manufacturing movie company which filmed the events of that day.
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