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Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London
E-Book, Englisch, Band 409, 340 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4777-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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Preface
Pt. 1 The Places of Experiment 1
Introduction: Electricity, Experiment, and the Experimental Life 3
Ch. 1 The Errors of a Fashionable Man: Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution 13
Ch. 2 The Vast Laboratory of Nature: William Sturgeon and Popular Electricity 43
Ch. 3 Blending Instruction with Amusement: London's Galleries of Practical Science 70
Ch. 4 A Science of Experiment and Observation: The Rise and Fall of the London Electrical Society 99
Ch. 5 The Right Arm of God: Electricity and the Experimental Production of Life 125
Pt. 2 Managing Machine Culture 153
Introduction: From Performance to Process 155
Ch. 6 They Have No Right to Look for Fame: The Patenting of Electricity 164
Ch. 7 To Annihilate Time and Space: The Invention of the Telegraph 194
Ch. 8 Under Medical Direction: The Regulation of Electrotherapy 231
Coda: The Disciplining of Experimental Life 257
Notes 263
Bibliography 295
Index 317