Dr. Granville's electromechanical vibrator was portable but had a wet cell battery that weighed about 40 pounds.
The claim that vibrators were used by doctors to cure hysteria has been since debunked in a 2018 study ("A Failure of Academic Quality Control: The Technology of Orgasm", in Journal of Positive Sexuality, by Hallie Lieberman and Eric Schatzberg).
Director 'Tanya Wexler' stated that the hardest shot to get for the movie was of two ducks mating. After filming hundreds of hours of ducks with nothing to show for it, they finally got the shot they needed when someone found a video on YouTube.
Joseph Mortimer Granville was well into his 50s when he invented his 'Pecussor'. He never intended it to be used to treat 'hysteria' and refused to treat women at all.
To quote his own notes on the apparatus: 'I have never yet percussed a female patient ... I have avoided, and shall continue to avoid the treatment of women by percussion, simply because I do not wish to be hoodwinked, and help to mislead others, by the vagaries of the hysterical state'.
To quote his own notes on the apparatus: 'I have never yet percussed a female patient ... I have avoided, and shall continue to avoid the treatment of women by percussion, simply because I do not wish to be hoodwinked, and help to mislead others, by the vagaries of the hysterical state'.
Both Tobias Menzies and Jonathan Pryce portrayed Prince Philip in the show The Crown.