Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment and founding father of the USA.
But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive 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 most weird and wonderful experiments ever conducted in the name of science.
Packed full of eccentric characters, irrational obsessions and ext.
Pan Electrified sheep, paperback/alex boese
