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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b10811676.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-316) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 324 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691059527 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England London".
- catalog subject "303.48/3 21".
- catalog subject "Electricity History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Electricity Social aspects England London History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Electrification England London History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "QC527.5 .M67 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Frankenstein's children : electricity, exhibition, and experiment in early-nineteenth-century London / Iwan Rhys Morus.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".