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Boese, Alex.

Electrified sheep : glass-eating scientists, nuking the moon, and more bizarre experiments / Alex Boese.

1st U.S. ed.

New York, N.Y. : Thomas Dunne Books, [2012], ©2011.

343 pages ; 22 cm

Chronicles eccentric scientific experiments that have been performed throughout history, including an attempt to set off nuclear explosions on the Moon and Benjamin Franklin's mouth-to-beak resuscitation on an electric-shocked chicken.

Science -- Miscellanea.

Science -- Experiments.

Trivia and miscellanea.

Originally published: London : Boxtree, 2011.

"First U.S. edition, June 2012"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-343).

Electric bodies. Electrifying birds ; The man who married his voltaic pile ; Electrocuting an elephant ; From electro-botany to electric schoolchildren ; Lightning, churches, and electrified sheep -- Nuclear reactions. Psychoneurotic atomic goats ; How to survive an atomic bomb ; Nuke the moon! ; The incredible atomic spaceship -- Deceptive ways. Men fight for science's sake ; The psychologist who hid beneath beds ; The metallic metals act ; A roomful of stooges ; Thud! ; The seductive Dr. Fox -- Monkeying around. The man who talked to monkeys ; Chimpanzee butlers and monkey maids ; The man who made apes fight ; The mystery of the missing monkey orgasm ; The chimp who grew up human -- Do-it-yourselfers. Hard to swallow ; This will be extremely painful ; Adventures in self-surgery ; Killing yourself for science.

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