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- catalog abstract "The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879, Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, only 20 percent of American families had wired their homes. Meanwhile, electrotherapy emerged as a popular medical treatment for everything from depression to digestive problems. Why did Americans welcome electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes? And what does their reaction to technological innovation then have to teach us about our reaction to it today? Author Simon offers the first cultural history that delves into those questions, using newspapers, novels, and other primary sources to trace fifty years of technological transformation and create a revealing portrait of an anxious age.--From publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b13322407.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-345) and index.".
- catalog description "The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879, Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, only 20 percent of American families had wired their homes. Meanwhile, electrotherapy emerged as a popular medical treatment for everything from depression to digestive problems. Why did Americans welcome electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes? And what does their reaction to technological innovation then have to teach us about our reaction to it today? Author Simon offers the first cultural history that delves into those questions, using newspapers, novels, and other primary sources to trace fifty years of technological transformation and create a revealing portrait of an anxious age.--From publisher description.".
- catalog description "pt. 1: Wonders. Working great mischief ; Beneficence ; Wilderness of wires ; Nerve juice ; Sparks -- pt. 2: Cravings of the heart ; The inconstant battery ; Haunted brains ; The inscrutable something -- pt. 3: Electrostrikes. Live wires ; Magical keys ; Dark light.".
- catalog extent "357 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Dark light.".
- catalog identifier "0151005869".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dark light.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Orlando : Harcourt,".
- catalog relation "Dark light.".
- catalog subject "2005 E-019".
- catalog subject "303.48/3 22".
- catalog subject "Electricity History.".
- catalog subject "Electricity Psychological aspects History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Electricity Social aspects History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Electrification Public opinion History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Electrification Public opinion History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Fear.".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century.".
- catalog subject "History, 20th Century.".
- catalog subject "Public Opinion.".
- catalog subject "QC 507 S595d 2004".
- catalog subject "TK17 .S56 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1: Wonders. Working great mischief ; Beneficence ; Wilderness of wires ; Nerve juice ; Sparks -- pt. 2: Cravings of the heart ; The inconstant battery ; Haunted brains ; The inscrutable something -- pt. 3: Electrostrikes. Live wires ; Magical keys ; Dark light.".
- catalog title "Dark light : electricity and anxiety from the telegraph to the X-ray / Linda Simon.".
- catalog type "text".