Frankenstein's children : electricity, exhibition, and experiment in early-nineteenth-century London / Iwan Rhys Morus.
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 publi...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1998]
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400847778 140084777X 9780691605272 0691605270 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |