In 1848 an explosion drove a three-foot-seven iron bar clean through the skull of railway foreman Phineas Gage, who stayed conscious, spoke within minutes, and lived nearly twelve more years

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The blast threw a thirteen-pound tamping iron through his cheek and out the top of his head. Within an hour he walked up a flight of stairs. What the famous part of the story gets wrong is what happened next. The post In 1848 an explosion drove a three-foot-seven iron bar clean through the skull of railway foreman Phineas Gage, who stayed conscious, spoke within minutes, and lived nearly twelve more years appeared first on Space Daily .