Boese - Electrified sheep: glass-eating scientists, nuking the moon, and more bizarre experiments

Perfect summertime readingpreferably 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 that he himself had shocked. Welcome to some of the weirdest and most wonderful experiments ever conducted in the name of science. Filled with stories of science gone strange, Electrified Sheep is packed with eccentric characters, irrational obsessions, and extreme experiments. Watch as scientists attempt to nuke the moon, wince at the doctor who performs a self-appendectomy, and catch the faint whiff of singed wool from an electrified sheep.;Electric bodies. Electrifying birds ; The man who married his voltaic pile ; Electrocuting an elephant ; From electro-botany to electric schoolchildren ; Lightning, churches, and electrified sheep -- Nuclear reactions. Psychoneurotic atomic goats ; How to survive an atomic bomb ; Nuke the moon! ; The incredible atomic spaceship -- Deceptive ways. Men fight for sciences sake ; The psychologist who hid beneath beds ; The metallic metals act ; A roomful of stooges ; Thud! ; The seductive Dr. Fox -- Monkeying around. The man who talked to monkeys ; Chimpanzee butlers and monkey maids ; The man who made apes fight ; The mystery of the missing monkey orgasm ; The chimp who grew up human -- Do-it-yourselfers. Hard to swallow ; This will be extremely painful ; Adventures in self-surgery ; Killing yourself for science.