Electric Power in Victorian Britain

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-28164-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 884 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1800 g

Reihe: Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents

This four-volume collection of primary sources examines electric power in Victorian Britain. The first volume covers the works of the natural philosophers, mathematicians, engineers, and entertainers for whom electricity became a vessel to say new things about energy and create a new means of generating motive force. The papers, books, and experiments explore the ways in which electricity transforms from a force of nature into a source of energy. The second volume looks at how electric power imprinted on the political landscape of Great Britain and the Empire. Outside the lecture halls and laboratories, electric power became a source for inventors, politicians, economists, and the public to explore, define, and lament how energy consumption should look. The third volume reviews the formalization of electric power infrastructures or “grids” as they took shape on a local, national, and imperial scale. These sources highlight how sociocultural forces shaped the scientific and technological perceptions of efficiency and feasibility. The fourth and final volume focuses on how citizens, novelists, doctors, politicians, and electrical engineers imagined electric power networks impacting the present and future. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Science.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kapoor, Nathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Elektrizität, Elektrodynamik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume I: Electricity as Energy; Volume II: Electricity as Politics; Volume III: Electricity as a System; Volume IV: Electricity as Future

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Nathan Kapoor is an Affiliate Professor of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Department History at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. Nathan Kapoor is a scholar of nineteenth and twentieth century technologies of electrification, with a specialisation in the history of British electrification at home and in its colonies, most especially New Zealand.