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What do Frankenstein, the lock-stitch sewing machine, and the Periodic Table of Elements have in common?

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What do Frankenstein, the lock-stitch sewing machine, and the Periodic Table of Elements have in common?

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Author Mary Shelley dreamed the horror that became her legendary book Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus. Elias Howe’s nightmare of being boiled by natives with spears gave him the necessary inspiration for the lock-stitch sewing machine. While striving to create a means to categorize the chemical elements based upon their atomic weights, Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev dreamed of the Periodic Table of Elements so precisely that upon awakening only one adjustment was necessary.