Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London
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List of IllustrationsPrefacePt. 1The Places of Experiment1Introduction: Electricity, Experiment, and the Experimental Life3Ch. 1The Errors of a Fashionable Man: Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution13Ch. 2The Vast Laboratory of Nature: William Sturgeon and Popular Electricity43Ch. 3Blending Instruction with Amusement: London's Galleries of Practical Science70Ch. 4A Science of Experiment and Observation: The Rise and Fall of the London Electrical Society99Ch. 5The Right Arm of God: Electricity and the Experimental Production of Life125Pt. 2Managing Machine Culture153Introduction: From Performance to Process155Ch. 6They Have No Right to Look for Fame: The Patenting of Electricity164Ch. 7To Annihilate Time and Space: The Invention of the Telegraph194Ch. 8Under Medical Direction: The Regulation of Electrotherapy231Coda: The Disciplining of Experimental Life257Notes263Bibliography295Index317