The Professor's Experiment
Item
- Title of Story
- The Professor's Experiment
- Story Summary
- A scientist and a physician attempt to bring a person back to life by stimulating their heart with electricity.
- Science Fiction Subgenres
- Invention Opera
- Experiment
- Inventions
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An invention and method that electrically stimulates the heart muscle.
An electrical dynamo. - Science
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Electrical engineering
Electrical muscle stimulation experiments
Electrophysiology - Science Future Articles
- Resuscitation with electricity on the heart was first performed in Chicago in 1952. A new invention called a defibrillator. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/139912839
- Science Past Articles
- None found yet.
- Science Extrapolations
- The scientist predicted that through his method of heart stimulation with electricity that many people may be brought back from the dead in the future.
- Similar Science Fiction
- The Restoration of Anstruthers (1905) by Ernest Walls.
- Every modern Frankenstein play or movie that focused on the electricity as a life giving force, starting with Peggy Webbling's 1927 play, would fit the science aspect. However, the original 'Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus,' is a retelling of the Golem story from Jewish folklore and doesn't feature any science descriptions or inventions, apart from a reference to electricity and galvanism theories in chapter 2 that isn't expanded on. The first ever Frankenstein movie in 1910, by Thomas Edison, reflects Shelley's story the most accurately, though with the monster coming together in a caldron.
- How this Story was Identified
- Using a keycloud, the story 'The Fin de Siecle Invention' (1900) by Adelaide Primrose was identified. An invention of an electrical instrument that could read the mind of a person and detect if they had committed a crime. Due to focusing on stories 1901-1939, I then searched the TBC looking for 'Primrose' and she had written another science fiction story, one that wasn't in my February 2024 copy of the database.
- KeyClouds
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invention scientific instrument mechanism inventor laboratory electricity current experiment
This keycloud found 13 stories in my concatenated stories collection from the TBC database, of which 9 I determined to be science fiction. - Related Paratext
- A testimonial advertisement about a doctor who advised an 80 year old soldier about an eczema cure, which worked.
- Additional Information
- For "The Southern Cross"
- Attributed Author
- Primrose, Adelaide
- Author Gender
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Female
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167783163 - Nationality
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Australian
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167783163 - Biographical and Other Sources
- Obituary: Mrs Adelaide Primrose Gatzemeyer (1944)
- "South Australian girl" (1906)
- Other Works by the Author Listed in the Newspaper
- Australian Idylls
- Single or Serialised
- Single
- Date Range
- 1906-12-21
- Number of Installments
- 2
- Complete or Supplemented
- Complete
- Estimated Word Count
- 2200
- Length
- Short story
- Links in To Be Continued
- https://readallaboutit.com.au/#/title/70347
- Links to Trove
- The Professor's Experiment
- Newspaper Name Location Years
- Southern Cross, Adelaide, SA, 1889-1954
- Location Town City
- Adelaide
- Location State Territory
- South Australia
- Provincial or Metro
- Metropolitan
- First Republished on InfiniteAnthologies.com
- YES
- General Subjects
- Fiction
- Newspaper Fiction
- Science Fiction
- Creative Writing
- Speculative Fiction
- Australian Fiction
- Language
- English
- Format
- Infinite Anthologies Identifier
- IA002
- Copyright
- CC By 4.0 (Reader Edition)
- Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Scholarly Edition)
- Edition Creator
- Neil Hogan
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