A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders : Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America /

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Benjamin Franklin's invention of the lightning rod is the founding fable of American science, but Franklin was only one of many early Americans fascinated by electricity. As a dramatically new physical experience, electricity amazed those who dared to tame the lightning and set it coursing thro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Delbourgo, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2006]
Temas:
Electricity > Experiments > History > 18th century.
Enlightenment > United States.
Science > Social aspects > United States > History > 18th century.
Science > United States > History > 18th century.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: Seizing the Lightning
  • 1 Atlantic Circuits
  • 2 Lightning Rods and the Direction of Nature
  • 3 Wonderful Recreations
  • 4 Electrical Politics and Political Electricity
  • 5 How to Handle an Electric Eel
  • 6 Electrical Humanitarianism
  • 7 Electricity as Common Sense
  • Conclusion: What Is American Enlightenment?
  • Notes
  • Illustration Sources
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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