Frankenstein series
First Prize, William Leahy: Sex Accelerates
William Leahy, a sexual psychologist of the 1940s, believed in the extraordinary power of human desire, which he called "cosmic life force." To prove his theory, he built an accelerator of desire that specialized in collecting "cosmic life force." Accelerators are made of metal boxes, steel bars, and various other "exotic materials" in which the experimenter can have sex while the machine continuously absorbs energy. William believed that the power of desire was extraordinary, and could eventually change the weather, colors, and even magnetic fields.
There are two sides to everything, and "cosmic vitality" is no exception, and in experiments it seems that some kind of negative force (what William called "dark cosmic vitality") eventually caused the plants around the laboratory to wither and be covered with dark clouds. To this end William further created an "anti-dark cloud machine" designed to channel dark clouds into the water through pipes ...
Perhaps the officials could not help but laugh, but William was absolutely serious, and he even invited Einstein to participate in this experiment, and together with the greatest scientists in human history, he discussed the design structure of the entire machine. Hearing this, we could only cover our faces and run away.
Charles Claude Gusley Opens the Gates of Hell: Two-Headed Hounds]
Charles Claude Gusley was not a grumbling, society-obsessed Frankenstein, but his genius was limited by his time (early 20th century). To let his imagination run wild, the mad scientist completed a series of experiments that even today's people are stunned by, and won himself a place on the Frankenstein list.
The surgery Gusley embarked on at the time was the prototype of modern organ transplantation, but while leaving behind a valuable scientific legacy, he also set a record first: "planting" the head of one dog into another dog. It should be noted that he did not perform a head transplant, but bred a dog with two heads. This may be the brother of the Three-Headed Dog of Hell in the first episode of Harry Potter.
Hwang Woo Seok Returns to the Ice Age: Mammoth Recovery]
South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-seok made a "breakthrough" in stem cell research, which initially won a round of applause, but eventually won a prison sentence. In 2006, Hwang was jailed for academic fraud in stem cell research and for violating the Bioethics Act. But in the study, Hwang did not embezzle a single bit of a few million yuan of private donations, but instead threw himself into experiments on cloning long-haired mammoths.
The idea itself was bad enough, but as a Frankenstein how could it stop there, so the Russian mafia got involved. A chunk of the research fund goes to the Russian black market in exchange for the cells of certain extinct animals (unless a movie is made, who would have thought that the gang would still do this business?). ）。
If successful, stem cell research could bring good news to thousands of patients; and even if this experiment succeeds, it will only realize Hwang's dream of a long-haired Jurassic Park.
Kevin Warwick transforms into a robot: Put an electronic arm on yourself.
British scientist and cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick is one of the few Frankensteins who are experimenting like crazy. Warwick is a big fan of robots, and he's constantly striving to become the world's first cyborg. The first step to achieving his dream was to embed a chip in his own arm, which allowed Warwick to lift tiny objects, turn on lights, and close doors. These things can be done with the touch of a finger, but he wants to steal this laziness.
A few years later, Warwick embedded a more advanced chip in his nervous system, which allowed him to control the entire robotic arm. Even crazier, he had a similar chip embedded in his wife's arm. So, on the Internet, the couple completed "the first purely electronic communication experiment between two humans." Regardless of what this long list of nouns is meant to say, I just want to know if humans can use this system to communicate A-pieces.
[Paracelsus points stone into gold: making man out of dung]
Paracelsu, who called himself Philippe Theofrastu Oliolu Bonbastu von Heinchem, was a physician and alchemist of the 16th century, one of the founders of toxicology and psychotherapy. He was the first to document the unconsciousness of clinical patients; he also made it to our list for writing a book about "how to make a miniature version of yourself." From the past man-making plan (sweating profusely in bed and pestering in various complex poses), paracelsus' artificial man took a big step forward. According to his theory, newborn babies are contaminated with female bodily fluids, so if you want to create a pure self, you must rule out this effect. Paracelsus practiced by packing his own feces in a glass bottle, sealing it, and burying it in horse manure for 40 days; the little man was shaped in the bottle and feeding him with blood for another 40 days.
We mentioned earlier that he was an internist, right? He treats patients with the same brain to think about problems... No wonder everyone says that instead of going to a doctor, a 16th-century patient should lie in bed and gamble his luck. Duncan McDowell is probably the shadiest doctor on this list, and his behavior is reminiscent of obscene and uninteresting behaviors such as "drink this grunting and bubbling drink" or "Come, smell my ether."
At the beginning of the 20th century, McDowell proposed the theory that the soul has weight, and came up with a specific number: 21 grams. That's right, the source of the allusion to the movie of the same name. During the experiment, he weighed the weight of 6 patients throughout their deaths. No article mentions who the 6 patients were and what cause they died for. Perhaps what they longed for at the time of their dying was God's mercy, even if it was artificial respiration, but in exchange for lying like jerky at the end of the scale.
McDowell also repeated the same experiment in 15 dogs. The dogs were clearly not cooperative enough, so he had to "help" them go to heaven. In the final experimental report, McDowell believed that humans died too quickly for him to adjust the weights and make accurate data; but dogs did not lose weight during death, so they were soulless. Maybe Gusley's two-headed dog is evil because it's double soulless.
John Conrad Dipper Steals the Day: Frankenstein
John Conrad Dipper was born in Frankenstein Castle in 1673 – yes, that's the name, I'm not kidding. In fact, such a sentence already says everything, but let's look down.
It is widely believed that Dipper is the prototype of the scientist in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He was an anatomist and alchemist at the time, and rumor has it that he boiled different parts of his body in large cauldrons during autopsy experiments, and also tried to use funnels and long tubes to direct the souls of one corpse into another.
There are also rumors that he robbed tombs in order to do experiments, which is also the inspiration for Frankenstein. Regardless of whether these rumors were true or not, in the end, What Dipper did led to his expulsion from the city.
Dipour is also known for making the "Dipole Divine Oil," a "panacea" made from bones, blood, and various animal organs. I suspect that apart from mad cow disease, the "divine oil" did not bring any results to the buyer.
[Nikola Tesla's Wrath of Thor: Arc Lightning]
Without Nikola Tesla, the image of Frankenstein might not have shone as brightly as it does today, much less would have had those shiny moments of zombie resurrection. Nikola Tesla has devoted his life to the study of electromagnetism, and his achievements may earn him a place at Batman's estate as well.
But he ended up going nowhere—because of his eccentricities: Nikolai was afraid of germs and dust, hated all round objects, would be disgusted by pearl earrings, traveled to rooms where he only lived in multiples of three, loved pigeons, and hated fat people terribly. He will never attend any conference speech unless it is about his "Tesla Ring". The Tesla Ring is the famous, electric coil in science fiction movies and games.
When Tesla wasn't playing with his big coils, he went to tinker with other terrible uses of lightning. He depicted a superparticle weapon that supposedly could "shoot down ten thousand enemy aircraft from 320 kilometers away." In addition, he studies anti-gravity airships, time travel, and a mind camera that can display thoughts on screens. I dare say that if Tesla himself had sat in front of this camera, the screen would have been the end of the earth with lightning and thunder.
Michael Paising's Steps to the Apocalypse: God's Helmet
Michael Paysinger was originally a cognitive neuroscientist, but he clearly wanted to change his career and set out to transform a sleigh helmet into a gateway to God.
Paisinger's helmet acts on the magnetic field of the human cranial cavity and temporal lobe of the brain, and the ideal result is for the experimenter to see Jesus Christ appearing at his side. More than 80 percent of the experimenters claimed to have seen a flash of inspiration in the house, but could not be sure whether the image was God or their deceased relatives.
The helmets kept electrocuting the brains until they sensed God appearing in the room. This experiment sounds cool. Either it will become a new party favorite, replacing tarot cards or pen fairies to attract spirits, or it will actually open the door for Paisinger to the realm of the gods.
Paisinger tried to explain all unknown phenomena in electromagnetism. UFOs, for example, are thought to be caused by seismic faults that disrupt the local geomagnetic field and give people the illusion of "mass culture." But that doesn't explain why we always see aliens, not Harrison Ford!
Thomas Miggili's Life's Work: Destroying the Earth
First, Thomas Migeli invented leaded gasoline for General Motors. You don't see his invention now. Why? Because lead is highly toxic!
In fact, in the process of developing leaded gasoline, Mijili himself was already poisoned by lead. In the first year of research and development, ten researchers died of lead poisoning, and countless patients died. GM was certainly not happy. Not because employees died, but because the downsizing was stalling research. The founding of the United States is efficiency, so Mijili immediately built a new production line and began experimenting with more toxic additives.
In the first two months of the new production line, more and more victims hallucinated and even went crazy, and five people died. And Miggili saved it all. At a news conference, he dipped his hands in lead compound and stood in gasoline smoke for a full minute to prove that gasoline was non-toxic. In the decades since, we can finally continue to emit highly toxic fumes into the atmosphere.
Mijili did not retire from this. GM commissioned him to invent a new refrigerant for air conditioning equipment, so he developed the chlorofluorocarbon, Freon. It wasn't until decades after his death that it was discovered that the ozone hole over Antarctica was caused by this compound. In 1973, his invention of leaded gasoline was finally banned by the government after decades of smoke spraying the earth, killing thousands of people and permanently damaging the brains of tens of millions.
Migili was unable to move in his later years due to severe polio. Illness certainly could not defeat our great inventor, whose last invention was a set of pulleys to help himself sit up from bed. In an accident, the pulleys spiraled out of control and he was eventually strangled to death by a rope. It's tragic, but it may have prevented Migili from developing any more compounds that could one day melt the entire planet.