Stories
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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test
The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.
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Titans in the landscape
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Charged bodies
Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.
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Eels and feels
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
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Miscellaneous material: untitled 3pp typescript draft beginning 'There is apparently no question that Electric Automatic Computing machines can be made to play a legally correct game of chess', nd; typed extract from journal; colour photograph of unidentified laboratory
Date: c.1940s-1960sReference: GC/179/A.95Part of: Bates, John A.V., and the Ratio Club- Books
The brain electric : the dramatic high-tech race to merge minds and machines / Malcolm Gay.
Gay, Malcolm, 1972-Date: 2015- Books
Animal electricity : how we learned that the body and brain are electric machines / Robert B. Campenot.
Campenot, Robert B., 1946-Date: 2016- Pictures
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Electricity: several electrical machines in use, with a man receiving an electric shock in the background. Engraving, [18th century], by B. Cole.
Reference: 47534i- Books
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The body electric : how strange machines built the modern American / Carolyn Thomas de la Peña.
Peña, Carolyn Thomas de laDate: [2003], ©2003