PETA isn't going to like this one. Joseph Priestley experimented with, shocked and killed a cat, all for scientific progress:
... Since I wrote to him, I discharged 37 Square feet of coated glass through the head and tail of a CAT three or four years old. She was instantly seized with universal convulsions, then lay as dead a few seconds....
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Clearly Priestley owned a classical cat -- one that was either dead or live but not both. If the cat had belonged to Schrodinger, the cat would have been in simultaneous alive and dead states. It was a simpler time.
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