Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London
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| Beschreibung: | During 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. Revealing 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.Frankenstein's Children explains that Faraday, with his colleagues at the Royal Society and the Royal Institution, looked at science as the province of a highly trained elite, who presented their abstract picture of nature only to select groups. The book contrasts Faraday's views with those of other practitioners, to whom science was a practical, skill-based activity open to all. In venues such as the Galleries of Practical Science, electrical phenomena were presented to a public less distinguished but no less enthusiastic and curious than Faraday's audiences. William Sturgeon, for instance, emphasized building apparatus and exhibiting electrical phenomena, while chemists, instrument-makers, and popular lecturers supported the London Electrical Society. These previously little studied "electricians" contributed much to the birth of "Frankenstein's children"--the not completely benign effects of electricity on a new consumer world.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 |
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| ISBN: | 9781400847778 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9781400847778 |
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| spelling | Morus, Iwan Rhys Verfasser aut Frankenstein's Children Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London Iwan Rhys Morus Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press [1998] 1 Online-Ressource (353p.) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier During 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. Revealing 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.Frankenstein's Children explains that Faraday, with his colleagues at the Royal Society and the Royal Institution, looked at science as the province of a highly trained elite, who presented their abstract picture of nature only to select groups. The book contrasts Faraday's views with those of other practitioners, to whom science was a practical, skill-based activity open to all. In venues such as the Galleries of Practical Science, electrical phenomena were presented to a public less distinguished but no less enthusiastic and curious than Faraday's audiences. William Sturgeon, for instance, emphasized building apparatus and exhibiting electrical phenomena, while chemists, instrument-makers, and popular lecturers supported the London Electrical Society. These previously little studied "electricians" contributed much to the birth of "Frankenstein's children"--the not completely benign effects of electricity on a new consumer world.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 In English Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1800-1850 gnd rswk-swf Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie Electricity / History / 19th century Electricity / Social aspects / England / London / History / 19th century Electrification / England / London / History / 19th century Elektriciteit Elektrificatie Électricité / Angleterre (GB) / 19e siècle Elektrizität Sozialer Wandel Electricity Electricity / Social aspects Electrification SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh SCIENCE / History bisacsh Geschichte Gesellschaft Elektrizität (DE-588)4014216-4 gnd rswk-swf Sozialer Wandel (DE-588)4077587-2 gnd rswk-swf London (DE-588)4074335-4 gnd rswk-swf Großbritannien (DE-588)4022153-2 gnd rswk-swf Großbritannien (DE-588)4022153-2 g Elektrizität (DE-588)4014216-4 s Sozialer Wandel (DE-588)4077587-2 s Geschichte 1800-1850 z 1\p DE-604 London (DE-588)4074335-4 g 2\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400847778 Verlag Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | Frankenstein's Children Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London |
| title_auth | Frankenstein's Children Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London |
| title_exact_search | Frankenstein's Children Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London |
| title_full | Frankenstein's Children Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London Iwan Rhys Morus |
| title_fullStr | Frankenstein's Children Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London Iwan Rhys Morus |
| title_full_unstemmed | Frankenstein's Children Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London Iwan Rhys Morus |
| title_short | Frankenstein's Children |
| title_sort | frankenstein s children electricity exhibition and experiment in early nineteenth century london |
| title_sub | Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London |
| topic | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie Electricity / History / 19th century Electricity / Social aspects / England / London / History / 19th century Electrification / England / London / History / 19th century Elektriciteit Elektrificatie Électricité / Angleterre (GB) / 19e siècle Elektrizität Sozialer Wandel Electricity Electricity / Social aspects Electrification SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh SCIENCE / History bisacsh Geschichte Gesellschaft Elektrizität (DE-588)4014216-4 gnd Sozialer Wandel (DE-588)4077587-2 gnd |
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