A new online archive allows members of the public to browse Humphry Davy ’s lab notebooks. As well as recording Davy’s ...
Investigating the effects of galvanism on dissected bodies, whereby muscles are stimulated using electrical current. Engraving from 'Essai theorique et experimental sur le galvanisme, avec une serie d ...
‘Perhaps a corpse would be re animated’, she wrote. ‘Galvanism had given token of such things.’ Galvani’s great breakthrough had come on 20 September 1786, when he had discovered – quite by accident – ...