If you’ve taken so much as one psychology course, you’ve probably heard of Phineas Gage, the man who survived having a railroad spike driven through his skull. It sounds like a one-of-a-kind ...

A grisly construction accident in New England in 1848 left railroad worker Phineas Gage with severe ... Gage survived the metal spike that went clear through his head and has since become an ...

A steel railroad spike clad in gold and silver used in the ceremony marking the completion of the transcontinental railroad, May 10, 1869. Courtesy of Christie's. Lee Carter January 27 ...

Phineas Gage, the 19th-century rail worker who ... an accident in which his brain was fully pierced by a large iron spike, can get off his historical high horse. A 24-year-old Brazilian ...

The Golden Spike ... railroad, but its route bypassed Southern California completely, connecting instead to San Francisco. When Wilmington-based shipping magnate Phineas Banning began building ...

In 1848, Phineas Gage became a medical miracle. Gage was a 25-year-old railroad foreman ... Most visitors to the museum come to see the giant spike and a life mask of Gage's head, complete ...

"Here is business enough for you," Gage told the first doctor to treat him after a premature detonation on a railroad-building ... her that the man might be Phineas Gage and, if so, this would ...