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Autore principale: | Gooday, Graeme, 1965-
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Titolo: | 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. |
Luoghi: | Inghilterra. |
Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XIX. |
Collocazione: | LS 13867 |
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