Length2h 13m
About this audiobook
Doctor Ox's Experiment is a short story by Jules Verne, published in 1872. It describes an experiment by Dr. Ox and his assistant Gedeon Ygene. A prosperous scientist Dr. Ox offers to build a new gas lighting system to an unusually stuffy Flemish town: Quiquendone. As the town bore no charges, the offer is gladly accepted. The hidden interest of Dr. Ox is however not lighting, but large scale experiment on effect of oxygen on plants, animals and humans. He uses electrolysis to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. The latter is being pumped to the city causing accelerated growth of plants, excitement and aggressiveness in animals and humans. The story ends up by destruction of the oxygen factory of Dr. Ox—by accident, oxygen and hydrogen got mixed causing a major explosion. Jules Verne acknowledges in the epilogue that the described effect of oxygen is a pure fiction invented by him.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure
Length2 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byRay Adams
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateFeb 28, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 01 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
10Chapter 10 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
2Chapter 02 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
11Chapter 11 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
3Chapter 03 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
12Chapter 12 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
4Chapter 04 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
13Chapter 13 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
5Chapter 05 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
14Chapter 14 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
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6Chapter 06 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
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7Chapter 07 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
16Chapter 16 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
8Chapter 08 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
17Chapter 17 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
9Chapter 09 - Doctor Ox's Experiment
