[Lf] A serious experiment

[Andre' Kesteloot]

hal wrote:

> [...]
>
>  Volta didn't know it but he was within inches of inventing
>  electroshock therapy.  Instead, it would have to wait for slaughter
> house workers in the 1920's to notice their electric shocks, design to
> stun
> the animals sensless, sometimes had a calming effect.

And of course, we had before him another inveterate tinkerer, Benjamin
Franklin, who used to kill chickens by electrocution (attaching them to
his kites...)
Andre'