About the Book: Electrified Sheep: Bizarre Experiments From The Bestselling
Author Of Elephants On Acid
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 extreme experiments, Electrified Sheep is the
follow-up to the bestselling Elephants on