Electrified Sheep: Glass-Eating Scientists, Nuking the Moon, and More Bizarre Experiments

Benjamin Franklin was a pioneering scientist, leader of the Enlightenment & founding father of the USA. But perhaps less well known is that he was also the first person to use artificial respiration to revive an electric shock victim. Odder still, it was actually mouth-to-beak resuscitation on a hen that he himself had shocked.