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Frankenstein's Children : Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[1998]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.