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Frankenstein´s Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London
Iwan Rhys Morus
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Description for Frankenstein´s Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 340 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691605272
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V9780691605272
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Reviews for Frankenstein´s Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London
"A fine book. . . . [It] adds substantially to our understanding not only of the history of electricity but also of a seminal period in the emergence of modern science and technology."—Bruce J. Hunt