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Vital Electricity
You're Dead to Me
Who's the First of the Italians?
Luigi Galvani is the first arch into the ring. He's doing electrical experiments as you do, and the legs twitch. Alessandra Volta decided that Galvani was wrong - electricity isn't produced by the frog's legs. The electricity is produced by the contact of the metals. To prove this he produces what we would now call a battery. This is the first battery invented in 1800,. It turns out to be a hugely useful device for the rest of the 19th century. So all kinds of mucking around with electricity and bits of flesh and bits of animals. And indeed, in due course,bits of human.
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