Coincidence single work   poetry   "Spark and blade."
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Coincidence
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Notes

  • Author's note: One November day in 1780 Luigi Galvani, physician, anatomist and physicist, was dissecting numerous fish, birds and frogs. Several frog legs lay on his desk, their nerves exposed by his skilful hand. By chance, his metal knife touched a nerve in one of the legs at the exact moment when a spark was released by his Leyden jar. Galvani could not believe his eyes. The leg muscles contracted. He had discovered that nerves react to electrical impulses. For the first time, using a simple technical device in the form of a conducting knife blade, he had forged a connection between technical and biological material.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Conversations Summer Conversations vol. 5 no. 2 Summer 2005 Z1170956 2005 periodical issue 2005 pg. 9-11
Last amended 13 Jan 2005 11:21:12
Newspapers:
    Powered by Trove
    X