owering everything from lamps to mixers, electricity seemed like it could do anything in the early 20th century, even cure physical shortcomings. At this 1926 Electrical Exposition held in New York’s now-demolished Grand Central Palace, a staffer demos an electrotherapeutic device that would purportedly stretch the vertically challenged. When activated, the device shot jolts of electricity to loosen up the spine, which allegedly allowed the subject to reach new heights. While more fiction than fact, electrotherapy continued for years to treat ailments such as indigestion, erectile dysfunction, and female “hysteria.”