Daughterograph taken around 1850 of Phineas Gage posing with the tamping rod that shot through his skull, affectionately referred to by him as “my iron bar.”[1284X1864].

On September 13, 1848, 25-year-old Phineas P. Gage, a well-liked and capable blasting foreman, was working south of Cavendish, Vermont, setting a charge. He had poured the powder but hadn’t yet packed sand over it. Distracted, he turned to look over his right shoulder, bringing his head directly above the hole. In that instant, his [...]