The morals of measurement : accuracy, irony and trust in late Victorian electrical practice / Graeme J.N. Gooday.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2004.
Descrizione fisica:
XXV, 285 p. : ill, ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of illustrations. Abbreviations. Preface. 1. Moralizing measurement: (dis)trust in people, instruments and techniques 2. Meanings of measurement and accounts of accuracy 3. Mercurial trust and resistive measures: rethinking the metals controversy (1860-1894) 4. Reading technologies: trust, the embodied instrument-user and the visualization of current measurement 5. Coupled problems of self-induction: the unparalleled and the unmeasurable in alternating-current technology 6. Measurement at a distance: fairness, trustworthiness and gender in reading the domestic electrical meter. Conclusion. Index
ISBN:
0521430984
Discipline:
Ingegneria elettrotecnica e delle comunicazioni--Studi.
