| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Princeton legacy library
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Princeton legacy library.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Places of Experiment -- Introduction: Electricity, Experiment, and the Experimental Life. Ch. 1. Errors of a Fashionable Man: Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution. Ch. 2. 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. Right Arm of God: Electricity and the Experimental Production of Life -- pt. 2. Managing Machine Culture -- Introduction: 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Electricity -- History -- 19th century.
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Electricity. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Electricity -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
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Electricity -- Social aspects. |
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England -- London. |
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Electrification -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
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Electrification. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1800-1850 |
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1800 - 1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morus, Iwan Rhys, 1964- Frankenstein's children 0691059527 (DLC) 98009451 (OCoLC)38249167 |
| ISBN |
9781400847778 (electronic book) |
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140084777X (electronic book) |
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9780691605272 |
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0691605270 |
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0691059527 |
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9780691059525 |
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