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27 septembre 2017
- handle: 10670/1.fgp07h
- isbn: 9782760307049
- eisbn: 9782760326316
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innovation électricité découverte science discovery electricity innovation science History & Philosophy Of Science SCI075000 PDASujets proches
Time-slip 20th century 1900s (Century) Nineteen hundreds (Century) Natural science Sciences Science of scienceCiter ce document
Cornelius Borck, « Media, Technology, and the Electric Unconsciousness in the 20th Century », Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, ID : 10670/1.fgp07h
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Just years before the arrival of the 20th century, time travel materialized in form of H. G. Wells’ famous novel The Time Machine. This device allowed one to travel to and from the future, not the past. A few decades into the new century, time travel in the opposite direction turned into a lived-through experience for some of neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield’s patients, when their brains were explored by means of electrical stimulation to prevent damage during epilepsy surgery. The electric curre...