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Electrified Sheep

Paperback • 2011 • English

Electrified Sheep

By Alex Boese

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About the book

Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a hen that he himself had shocked. Welcome to some of the most weird and wonderful experiments ever conducted in the name of science. Packed full of eccentric characters, irrational obsessions and extrem...Show more

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ISBN

9781447212188

Publisher

Pan Books Limited

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Electrified Sheep

Format

Paperback

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