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National Library of Medicine: Electricity, Frankenstein, & the Spark of Life

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Using an online exhibition, investigate how Mary Shelley's horror science fiction story, Frankenstein, reflects the knowledge and studies of electricity, and how those fictional ideas are used in modern medicine.

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electricity, voltage, frankenstein, mary shelley, stem

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atrial fibrillation, electrical impulses in hearts, electrical volt, electricity in medicine, galvanism, muscle reaction, pace maker, pacemaker, alessandro volta, luigi galvani's experiment, national institutes of health, national library of medicine, nervous system

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Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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