Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1905 — An Aceideatal Discovery. [ARTICLE]

An Aceideatal Discovery.

There lived in Boulogne, Italy, over a hundred years ago a learned student. Dr. Galvani by name. On one occasion be was making a scientific experiment with frogs. After they were dead, wishing to dry them, be pierced them with little brass rods and hung them on the iron railing of bls balcony. To his surprise they began to move, and Galvani saw this was due to the action of the wind. This knocked the part of the bodies pierced by the brass rods against the iron balcony. This discovery resulted in the galvanic battery, which has been employed tn the later inventions of the telegraph, trolley cars, electric lights, bells, etc.—all these because a frog made the tutquaintance of a wise man.