
Batteries
Patented: History of Inventions
It's the Spark of Life
Al Dini became famous in the scientific community for doing these experiments. Mary Shelley's father lived at this time, and he was friends among the movers and shakers. So it's presumably it was Al Dini's work that inspired her to write this novel about a dead person coming back to life. The limits to where our technology can go are often battery limits.
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