Frankenstein's children : electricity, exhibition, and experiment in early-nineteenth-century London / Iwan Rhys Morus.

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Morus, Iwan Rhys, 1964-

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TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400847778
140084777X
9780691605272
0691605270

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Frankenstein's childrenDDC classification:

303.48/3 22

LOC classification:

QC527.5 .M67 1998

Other classification:

33.16
53.10
NU 1500

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Contents:

pt. 1. The Places of Experiment -- Introduction: 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 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.

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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.