Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Inventors' Advocate, and Journal of Industry
Author: Boyle's court and country guide
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
A Guide to the Printed Materials for English Social and Economic History, 1750-1850
Author: Judith Blow WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Frankenstein's Children
Author: Iwan Rhys MorusPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140084777X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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.
A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, (1665 to 1882)
Author: Henry Carrington BoltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, 1665-1895
Author: Henry Carrington BoltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
A Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals
Author: Henry Carrington BoltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Author: Smithsonian InstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals
Author: Henry Carrington BoltonPublisher: City of Washington : Smithsonian institution
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
8603 titles: pt. I, 4954 titles, is a reprint of 1st edition, 1885, with changes to date; pt. II includes additions to titles in pt. I, and titles 5001 to 8477; addenda, 8478 to 8603.