Physics
Electrified Sheep
& Elephants on Acid
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Homemade nuclear reactor (July 2011)
A Swedish man, Richard Handl of Ängelholm, attempted to conduct a nuclear fission experiment in his kitchen. He obtained radioactive materials from devices such as smoke detectors as well as online from sites including eBay, and then he combined those materials on top of his stove. He told reporters, "I thought I would do an experiment to see if it really works to build a nuclear reactor."
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 In 1780 the Italian anatomy professor Luigi Galvani discovered that a spark of electricity could cause the limbs of a dead frog to twitch. Soon men of science throughout Europe were repeating his experiment, but it didn't take them long to bore of frogs and turn their attention to more interesting animals. What would happen, they wondered, if you electrified a human corpse? |
 Johann Wilhelm Ritter |