When the famous novel Frankenstein was published in 1818, electricity was little less than a living room rarity , although there were already scientists experimenting with it for useful purposes.
One of these was the British Andrew Crosse, who had built a laboratory where, among other experiments, he applied electric shocks to corpses in an attempt to bring them back to life after verifying that the shocks produced spasms in their bodies.
A method that was nothing new , since other scientists such as Luigi Galvani had previously practiced it. Fascinated by these experiments, the author of the immortal novel, Mary Shelley , wife of the poet Percy Shelley and daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, philosopher and feminist ahead of her time, decided to capture them in the novel that, with the protagonism of her very human monster Frankenstein, it has passed to posterity.
