Fact of The Day: The world’s most bizarre experiments Part 2 -The Electrification of Human Corpses
April 12, 2009 by admin
Filed under - Short Science Articles, Short Mystery Articles
In 1780 the Italian anatomy professor Luigi Galvani discovered that a spark of electricity could cause the limbs of a dead frog to twitch. Soon men of science throughout Europe were repeating his experiment, but it didn’t take them long to bore of frogs and turn their attention to more interesting animals. What would happen, they wondered, if you electrified a human corpse?
