Galvanism: The Experiment That Sparked The Frankenstein Legend

'In Search of Science', Season 1, Episodes 1,2,3: Explore the controversial, often terrifying, relationship between British Science and the public that began with the macabre experiments of Giovani Aldini. In 1803, Aldini publicly electrocuted a hanged man’s corpse—a shocking display of galvanism that inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus .

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