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Galvanism - Wikipedia

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Galvanism: electrodes touch a frog, and the legs twitch into the upward position. Cartoon of a galvanised corpse. In biology, galvanism is the contraction of a muscle that is stimulated by an electric current. ... The effect was named after the scientist Luigi Galvani, who investigated the effect of electricity on dissected animals in ...

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Luigi Galvani - Wikipedia

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Luigi Aloisio Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who discovered animal electricity. He is recognized as the pioneer of bioelectromagnetics. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when ... The phenomenon was dubbed galvanism, after Galvani, on the suggestion ...

Luigi Galvani and the Twitching Frog's Leg

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Luigi Galvani (1737 - 1798). During the 1780's, biologist Luigi Galvani performed experiments at the University of Bologna involving frogs. While cutting a frog's ...

The Experiment That Shocked the World | Helix Magazine

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Aug 2, 2017 - An illustration of Galvani's setup, depicting a dead frog connected to a ... Around the turn of the 19th century, demonstrations of Galvanism ...

Luigi Galvani | Italian physician and physicist | Britannica.com

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Sep 5, 2018 - Again, a visitor to his laboratory caused the legs of a skinned frog to kick ... Volta, who coined the term galvanism, said of Galvani's work that “it ...

Galvani and the Frankenstein Story - Engineering and Technology ...

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Sep 15, 2015 - One day in 1786, Galvani was researching a dissected frog in his ... Victor Frankenstein alludes to lightning and Galvanism as the basis for ...

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Who discovered galvanism? - ACS Publications

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/ed040p655

by EF Kohman - ‎1963

Luigi Galvani, after whom galvanism is named, was an. Itdisn biologist who was studying the effect of an electric current on the nerves of skinned frog legs.

How Twitching Frog Legs Helped Inspire 'Frankenstein' | Smart News ...

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Dec 4, 2015 - Galvanism sought to reanimate the dead—and in doing so provided the ... the concept came about after Galvani was able to make a frog's legs ...

The Real Electric Frankenstein Experiments of the 1800s - Atlas Obscura

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Oct 31, 2016 - While most scientists were using galvanism to search for clues about life, Ure ... A sketch of Luigi Galvani's 1780 frog muscle experiment.