1. A Wonderful Journey
through Skull and Brains:
The Travels of Mr. Gage’s
Tamping Iron
di M. B. Macmillan
Monash University, Clayton,Victoria, Australia
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2. Biographical Notes/1
• September 9, 1823: Phineas gage borns in
Lebanon, New Hampshire, son of Jesse E. Gage e
Hannah Sweatland, first of 5 children.
• Grows up and attends school in Lebanon
• May 1847: He’s hired by Rutland and Burlington
Railroad, attaining foreman role
• September 13, 1848, 4.30 p.m.: the crowbar starts
traveling...
• November 25, 1848: Goes back to Lebanon after
recovering from injuries