Dark light: electricity and anxiety from the telegraph to the X-ray
The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879, Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, only 20 percent of American families had wired their...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The modern world imagines that the invention of electricity was greeted with great enthusiasm. But in 1879, Americans reacted to the advent of electrification with suspicion and fear. Forty years after Thomas Edison invented the incandescent bulb, only 20 percent of American families had wired their homes. Meanwhile, electrotherapy emerged as a popular medical treatment for everything from depression to digestive problems. Why did Americans welcome electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes? And what does their reaction to technological innovation then have to teach us about our reaction to it today? Author Simon offers the first cultural history that delves into those questions, using newspapers, novels, and other primary sources to trace fifty years of technological transformation and create a revealing portrait of an anxious age.--From publisher description. |
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BENEFICENCE 48 3: WILDERNESS OF WIRES 70 4: NERVE JUICE 96 5: SPARKS 123
PAR T II: GRAVINOS OF THE HEART 6: THE INCONSTANT BATTERY 143 7: HAUNTED
BRAINS 168 8: THE INSCRUTABLE SOMETHING 195 PART III: ELECTROSTRIKES 9:
LIVE WIRES 219 10: MAGICAL KEYS 246 II: DARK LIGHT 272 APPRECIATION 301
NOTES 303 BIBLIOGRAPHY 323 INDEX 347
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