Displaying 1 of 1 2012 Format: Book Author: Boese, Alex. Title: Electrified sheep : glass-eating scientists, nuking the moon, and more bizarre experiments / Alex Boese. Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Publisher, Date: New York, N.Y. : Thomas Dunne Books, [2012], ©2011. Description: 343 pages ; 22 cm Summary: 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. Subjects: Science -- Miscellanea. Science -- Experiments. Genre: Trivia and miscellanea. Notes: Originally published: London : Boxtree, 2011. "First U.S. edition, June 2012"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-343). Contents: 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. LCCN: 2012471198 ISBN: 9781250007537 1250007534 Other Number: 759913919 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 337504 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 500 Boese Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1