... more than one researcher set out to solve. In 1803, Giovanni Aldini used electric shock to induce muscle spasms in the corpse of a criminal hanged at Newgate. According to Tropp, "As in Galvini's earlier experiments with the legs of frogs, the momentary twitching induced by the current of electricity was mistaken for a short-lived spark of life" (54). It was widely held that due to ... of this equation of man and mechanism was an erasure of the moral boundaries between what science could create and what was reserved for a higher technology. According to Wasserman: In 1789, Johann Friedr...

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... inspiration was Luigi Galvani, an Italian physician of the 18th century, who discovered in 1780, that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by a spark of electricity. This began the way for scientific research and scientific belief; one of the first steps into the study of bioelectricity, a field that, still today, studies the electrical patterns and signals of the nervous system. Mary Shelley was intrigued by ... the idea of electrical current being used to bring a dead ... ...

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