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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Main Author: Morus, Iwan Rhys, 1964-
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Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1998]
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245 1 0 |a Frankenstein's children :  |b electricity, exhibition, and experiment in early-nineteenth-century London /  |c Iwan Rhys Morus. 
264 1 |a Princeton, N.J. :  |b Princeton University Press,  |c [1998] 
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505 0 0 |g pt. 1.  |t The Places of Experiment --  |t Introduction: Electricity, Experiment, and the Experimental Life.  |g Ch. 1.  |t The Errors of a Fashionable Man: Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution.  |g Ch. 2.  |t The Vast Laboratory of Nature: William Sturgeon and Popular Electricity.  |g Ch. 3.  |t Blending Instruction with Amusement: London's Galleries of Practical Science.  |g Ch. 4.  |t A Science of Experiment and Observation: The Rise and Fall of the London Electrical Society.  |g Ch. 5.  |t The Right Arm of God: Electricity and the Experimental Production of Life --  |g pt. 2.  |t Managing Machine Culture --  |t Introduction: From Performance to Process.  |g Ch. 6.  |t They Have No Right to Look for Fame: The Patenting of Electricity.  |g Ch. 7.  |t To Annihilate Time and Space: The Invention of the Telegraph. 
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