Playing with fire: histories of the lightning rod
"In 2002 the world commemorated the 250th anniversary of the invention of the lightning rod. In 2006 the tricentenary of the birth of its inventor, Benjamin Franklin, was celebrated. In spite of this attention, the development and adoption of the lightning rod remain poorly understood, perhaps...
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| Summary: | "In 2002 the world commemorated the 250th anniversary of the invention of the lightning rod. In 2006 the tricentenary of the birth of its inventor, Benjamin Franklin, was celebrated. In spite of this attention, the development and adoption of the lightning rod remain poorly understood, perhaps because it is so deeply embedded in our culture that we overlook it. Playing with Fire reveals the complex histories of the lightning rod in a multidisciplinary and multifaceted manner. To reflect of the development of the 'Franklin rod' is to understand how science and technology have entered our world and changed it in profound ways."--Publisher's description. |
| Physical Description: | XI, 290 S. Ill. 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781606189955 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
List of Illustrations
ix
Introduction: Revisiting an Invisible Technology
1
Oliver
Hochadel
and Peter Heering
Part
1:
Erecting the Rod—Spreading Enlightenment
Enlightening Towers: Public Opinion, Local Authorities, and the
Reformation of Meteorology in Eighteenth Century Italy
25
Paola Bertucci
In nebula nebulorum : The Dry Fog of the Summer of
1783
and
the Introduction of Lightning Rods in the German Empire
45
Oliver
Hochadel
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Lightning and Enlightenment
in the
Gazeta de Literatura
de Mexico (1788-1795) 71
Fiona
Clark
Part 2: Expertise,
Control, and Imagery—Lightning Rod Politics
Points or Knobs: Lightning Rods and the Basis of Decision Making
in Late Eighteenth Century British Science
97
R. W. Home
Styles of Experimentation and the Attempts to Establish the
Lightning Rod in Pre-Revolutionary Paris
121
Peter Heering
Eripuit caelo fulmen sceptrumque
tyrannis :
The Political Iconography of Lightning in Europe and
North America,
1750-1800 144
Christian
Fuhrmeister
vi
Contents
Part
3:
The Lightning Rod as Commodity in Nineteenth
Century America
Lightning Rods and the Commodification of Risk in Nineteenth
Century America
167
Arwen Mohun
Earth Grounds and Heavenly Spires: Lightning Rod Men, Patent
Inventors, and Telegraphers
181
Elizabeth
Cavicchi
Part
4:
Looking at Lightning: Models, Instruments, and
Modern Research
The Lightning Rod: A Case Study of Eighteenth Century Model
Experiments
209
Willem
D.
Hackmann
Prometheus Tools: Instruments and Apparatus Used in Atmospheric
Electricity Research and Experiments
230
Paolo Brenni
A Modern Assessment of Benjamin Franklin s Lightning Rods
256
C. B. Moore, G. D.
Aulich,
and William Rison
Epilogue: An Invisible Technology—What Remains to Be Seen
269
Peter Heering and
Oliver Hochadel
Contributors
277
Index
281
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