ISBN:
9781400847778
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140084777X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 324 pages)
,
illustrations.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Cheval, André Compte rendu de Iwan Rhys Morus : «Frankenstein's Children : Electricity, Exhibition and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London» 2000
Series Statement:
Princeton legacy library
Parallel Title:
Print version Frankenstein's children
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Electricity History
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19th century
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Electricity Social aspects
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History
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19th century
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England
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London
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Electrification History
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19th century
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England
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London
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London
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Gro→britannien
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England
;
London
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Electrification History 19th century
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Electricity Social aspects 19th century
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History
;
Electricity History 19th century
;
Electricity history
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
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SCIENCE ; History
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Electricity
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Electricity ; Social aspects
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Electrification
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Elektrizität
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Sozialer Wandel
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Elektriciteit
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Elektrificatie
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Physics
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Physical Sciences & Mathematics
;
Electricity & Magnetism
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Électricité ; Angleterre (GB) ; 19e siècle
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History
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Electronic books
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Großbritannien
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England ; London
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London
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Electronic books
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
During the second quarter of the nineteenth century, Londoners were enthralled by a strange fluid called electricity. In examining this period, Iwan Morus moves beyond the conventional focus on the celebrated Michael Faraday to discuss other electrical experimenters, who aspired to spectacular public displays of their discoveries. Revealing connections among such diverse fields as scientific lecturing, laboratory research, telegraphic communication, industrial electroplating, patent conventions, and innovative medical therapies, Morus also shows how electrical culture was integrated into a new machine-dominated, consumer society. He sees the history of science as part of the history of production, and emphasizes the labor and material resources needed to make electricity work
Description / Table of Contents:
Pt. 1.The Places of ExperimentIntroduction: Electricity, Experiment, and the Experimental Life.Ch. 1.The Errors of a Fashionable Man: Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution.Ch. 2.The Vast Laboratory of Nature: William Sturgeon and Popular Electricity.Ch. 3.Blending Instruction with Amusement: London's Galleries of Practical Science.Ch. 4.A Science of Experiment and Observation: The Rise and Fall of the London Electrical Society.Ch. 5.The Right Arm of God: Electricity and the Experimental Production of LifePt. 2.Managing Machine CultureIntroduction: From Performance to Process.Ch. 6.They Have No Right to Look for Fame: The Patenting of Electricity.Ch. 7.To Annihilate Time and Space: The Invention of the Telegraph.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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