On Sept. 13, 1848, at around 4:30 p.m., the time of day when the mind might start wandering, a railroad foreman named Phineas Gage filled a drill hole with gunpowder and turned his head to check ...

The railroad-construction company that employed ... In his book An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage, the University of Melbourne’s Malcolm Macmillan writes that two-thirds of ...

Phineas Gage is often referred to as the "man who ... 25-year-old Gage was working as the foreman of a crew preparing a railroad bed near Cavendish, Vermont. He was using an iron tamping rod ...

In 1848, a 25-year-old railroad worker named Phineas Gage was blowing up rocks to clear the way for a new rail line in Cavendish, Vt. He would drill a hole, place an explosive charge, then pack in ...

(Today’s story: ‘A piercing image of Phineas Gage.’) Gage was the foreman of a construction crew laying a railroad roadbed in 1848, using powder to blast rock. As he was packing powder and ...

Most of Phineas Gage rests 6 feet under in Colma ... At 25, Gage found himself working as a foreman for the Rutland Railroad in Vermont. On Sept. 13, 1848, he was helping set up a demolition ...

On September 13, 1848, a 25-year-old railroad worker named Phineas Gage triggered an explosion that propelled a 3 foot 7 inch iron rod straight through his skull, destroying a good portion of his ...

In 1848, Phineas Gage became a medical miracle. Gage was a 25-year-old railroad foreman, who was known for being efficient and friendly. One September day, his crew was laying track in Cavendish ...

most books about the brain come back to the story of Phineas Gage. Gage was a railroad worker in the 19th century. In an unfortunate 1848 accident, a large steel spike was driven through his eye ...