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100 1 $aMorus, Iwan Rhys,$d1964-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98003903
245 10 $aFrankenstein's children :$belectricity, exhibition, and experiment in early-nineteenth-century London /$cIwan Rhys Morus.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c1998.
263 $a9811
300 $axiv, 324 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [263]-316) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tThe Places of Experiment --$tIntroduction: Electricity, Experiment, and the Experimental Life.$gCh. 1.$tThe Errors of a Fashionable Man: Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution.$gCh. 2.$tThe Vast Laboratory of Nature: William Sturgeon and Popular Electricity.$gCh. 3.$tBlending Instruction with Amusement: London's Galleries of Practical Science.$gCh. 4.$tA Science of Experiment and Observation: The Rise and Fall of the London Electrical Society.$gCh. 5.$tThe Right Arm of God: Electricity and the Experimental Production of Life --$gPt. 2.$tManaging Machine Culture --$tIntroduction: From Performance to Process.$gCh. 6.$tThey Have No Right to Look for Fame: The Patenting of Electricity.$gCh. 7.$tTo Annihilate Time and Space: The Invention of the Telegraph.$gCh. 8.$tUnder Medical Direction: The Regulation of Electrotherapy.$tCoda: The Disciplining of Experimental Life.
520 $aDuring 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.
520 8 $aRevealing 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 material resources needed to make electricity work.
650 0 $aElectricity$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aElectricity$xSocial aspects$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aElectrification$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y19th century.
852 00 $bmat$hQC527.5$i.M67 1998
852 00 $bbar$hQC527.5$i.M67 1998