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* in the late 1700s, Luigi Galvani realized that muscle tissue reacted to electricity | * in the late 1700s, Luigi Galvani realized that muscle tissue reacted to electricity | ||
** his assistant accidently touched a dead frog's leg with a charged scalpel, which made its leg move | ** his assistant accidently touched a dead frog's leg with a charged scalpel, which made its leg move | ||
* the | ** Galvani later realized that electricity produced the same effect | ||
** became a cultural meme | ** he proposed that electricity animated living things | ||
** he called it "animal electricity" | |||
*** became known as "Galvanism" | |||
[[File:A Galvanised Corpse.jpg|thumb|Cartoon of a galvanized corpse (1836)]] | |||
*** became a cultural phenomenon (meme) | |||
*** cartoons and stories of corpses raised from the dead with electricity | |||
** the term "Galvanism" was actually coined by Alessandro Volta, who built the first chemical electric battery | |||
*** for Volta, "Galvanism" referred to generation of electricity via chemical reactions | |||
[[Category:British Literature]] | [[Category:British Literature]] | ||