On 18 January 1803, George Foster was hanged by the neck.
The jury had found him guilty of murdering his wife and child by drowning them in Londons Paddington Canal.
Shortly before his execution at the Newgate prison, Foster made a full confession of his gruesome crime.
Rising of a corpse galvanized by a primitive galvanic battery.
Giovanni Aldini placed electrodes on Fosters face and connected them to a large battery.
app of the same process on Fosters limbs caused his right hand to be raised and his fist clenched.
His legs and thighs were set in motion and his back arched violently.
Some of those witnessing the demonstration actually believed that Foster was being restored to life.
Late 1780s diagram of Galvani’s experiment on frog legs.
Rather, electricity was being generated by the two different metals that Galvani used for conduction.
His most famous public demonstration of the electro-stimulation technique was on the corpse of George Foster.
Paul Traugott Meissner, an Austrain chemist, believed that blood in the lungs becomes electrically charged through breathing.
Galvanis discoveries also inspired one of the most famous examples of science fiction:Frankensteinby Mary Shelley.
The term galvanism is used today only in historical contexts.
