"#Galvanism is a term invented by the late 18th-century physicist & chemist #AlessandroVolta to refer to the generation of electric current by chemical action...came to refer to the discoveries of...Luigi #Galvani...the generation of electric current within biological organisms & the contraction/convulsion of biological muscle tissue upon contact with electric current...#MaryShelley's #Frankenstein..was inspired in part by the theory..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanism

#galvanic #electricity