Electrified Sheep: Glass-Eating Scientists, Nuking the Moon, and More Bizarre Experiments

by Alex Boese

Book Overview

"Perfect summertime reading preferably with a friend nearby who can be constantly interrupted with unsettling facts." "Daily Mail" (UK )Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment, and a founding father of the United States. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on an electric-shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a hen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250007534
• ISBN13: 9781250007537
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.5"