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| Autore principale: | Morus, Iwan Rhys, 1964-
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| Titolo: | Frankenstein's children : electricity, exhibition and experiment in early-nineteenth-century London / Iwan Rhys Morus. |
| Pubblicazione: | Princeton : Princeton university press, c1998. |
| Descrizione fisica: | XIV, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: List of illustrations. Preface. Pt. 1 The places of experiment: Introduction: Electricity, experiment, and the experimental life. 1. The errors of a fashionable man: Michael Faraday and the royal Institution 2. The vast laboratory of nature: William Sturgeon and popular electricity 3. Blending instruction with amusement: London's galleries of practical science 4. A science of experiment and observation: the rise and fall of the London electrical society 5. The right arm of God: electricity and the experimental production of life. Pt. 2 Managing machine culture: Introduction: From performance to process. 6. They have no right to look for fame: the patenting of electricity 7. To annihilate time and space: the invention of the telegraph 8. Under medical direction: the regulation of electrotherapy. Coda: The disciplining of experimental life. Notes. Bibliography. Index |
| ISBN: | 0691059527 |
| Discipline: | Elettricità e Magnetismo--Studi. Ingegneria elettrotecnica e delle comunicazioni--Studi. |
| Luoghi: | Londra. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XIX. |
| Collocazione: | LS 10543 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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