Frankenstein's children : electricity, exhibition, and experiment in early-nineteenth-century London

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-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1998]
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
Subjects:
1800-1899
Geschichte 1800-1850
Electricity > History > 19th century.
Electricity > Social aspects > England > London > History > 19th century.
Electrification > England > London > History > 19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SCIENCE > History.
Electricity
Electricity > Social aspects
Electrification
Elektrizität
Sozialer Wandel
Elektriciteit.
Elektrificatie.
Physics.
Physical Sciences & Mathematics.
Electricity & Magnetism.
Électricité > Angleterre (GB) > 19e siècle.
England > London
London
Großbritannien
History
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Table of 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.

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