Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has been scaring readers since 1818. But what inspired the book’s overconfident doctor, who believes he can coax life from death? As Sharon Ruston explains for Public ...

In 1818 Mary Shelley published “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus.” In the novel, Frankenstein brings a creature to life with a "spark of being." Grotesque experiments with electricity and ...

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — On a New Mode of Applying Galvanism without Giving a Shock ...

An Account of The Late Improvements in Galvanism is a book by Giovanni Aldini which was highly influential at the time of publishing. In this book, Giovanni Aldini reported experiments in which the ...

Galvanism – the contraction of muscle stimulated by an electric current – was named after 18th Century scientist Luigi Galvani who investigated the effect of electricity on dissected animals. These ...

Giovanni Aldinis An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism delves into the fascinating world of electricity and its effects on the human body. Aldinis meticulous exploration of galvanism, a ...

In the late 1800s, we still didn’t know a great deal about electricity. One scientist was still attempting to figure out how electric shocks kill things in 1895, and found that when he delivered a 240 ...

Similar to the previously seen Text-o-possum, someone's bad art project has spread, virus-like, to the internet, where we have to be subjected to its heavy-handed proclamations on the role of ...

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- the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis) ...