So I get a Facebook message about my high school reunion coming up. The person in charge needs my contact info. I get her email and send a nice message back with a quick blurb about the kids and the like. I should mention, I went to primary school and high school with this girl. --This is a portion of the email I got back from her:
Chris- Glad all is well for you. After two weeks of 100 degrees here in Kansas, I'm wishing that I was vacationing in Cape Cod! Do you know what I remember about you? That once in elementary school you made a robot out of a trash can. Very impressive. Here's the reunion info:
Chris, We just had our 40th reunion and I know what you mean.
I knew we were going to be disecting live frogs in biology class, so…I made up a “nerve stimulator” to have a little fun with mister frog. I took the audio output transformer from an “all American 5-tube radio” and wired some batteries and a pushbutton to the speaker leads. The primary, “HV plate winding”, was brought out to some suitable contacts. The output pulse was somewhere around 350 volts. Don’t let anyone tell you a “dead” frog can’t jump. Mister frog was jumping everywhere, girls screaming, guys laughing, biology teacher not amused, and I got a weeks detention for my effort.
That was in 1968… today, nerve stimulators are common items, I should have patented it:-(
