Download or read book Electricity the Science of the Nineteenth Century written by Emma Marie Caillard and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electricity written by Emma Marie Caillard and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electricity the Science of the Nineteenth Century written by E. M. Caillard and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science written by Stella Pratt-Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing electricity as a site for intense and imaginative Victorian speculation, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the synthesis of nineteenth-century electricity made possible by the powerful combination of science, literature and the popular imagination. With electricity resisting clear description, even by those such as Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell who knew it best, Pratt-Smith argues that electricity was both metaphorically suggestive and open to imaginative speculation. Her book engages with Victorian scientific texts, popular and specialist periodicals and the work of leading midcentury novelists, including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, William Makepeace Thackeray and Wilkie Collins. Examining the work of William Harrison Ainsworth and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pratt-Smith explores how Victorian novelists attributed magical qualities to electricity, imbuing it with both the romance of the past and the thrill of the future. She concludes with a case study of Benjamin Lumley’s Another World, which presents an enticing fantasy of electricity’s potential based on contemporary developments. Ultimately, her book contends that writing and reading about electricity appropriated and expanded its imaginative scope, transformed its factual origins and applications and contravened the bounds of literary genres and disciplinary constraints.
Download or read book ELECTRICITY THE SCIENCE OF THE written by Emma Marie 1852 Caillard and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ELECTRICITY THE SCIENCE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY written by EMMA MARIE. CAILLARD and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electricity the Science of the Nineteenth Century written by Emma Marie Caillard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Electricity, the Science of the Nineteenth Century: A Sketch for General Readers Ing a keen desire for a closer and fuller acquaintance with the truths of which it gives an indica tion. Should this be the case in the present instance, the writer would be abundantly rewarded for what has been throughout a' labour of love. At any rate most persons will agree with her, that to have no knowledge whatever of the striking advances which are being made in all branches of physical science, and especially in those which fall within the scope of Electricity, ' is a considerable intellectual loss. It is even more than this, for there is no aid to faith in the Invisible greater than the pursuit of knowledge, which is forever obliged to penetrate beyond the apparent in order to keep in touch with the real. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Electricity written by Emma Marie Caillard and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electricity the Science of the Nineteenth Century Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Emma Marie Caillard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Electricity, the Science of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2 It must not be supposed that induction currents show themselves only in wires. Solid bars or masses of metal of any shape are sus ceptible of them, and a magnet moved in the neighborhood of a lump or plate of metal, or the starting or stopping of an electric cur rent near it induces in it currents which, owing to the resistance they encounter, very rapidly transform their energy into that of heat, and while they last tend to stop the motion of the magnet which gave rise to them. This they do in accordance with a law, known as lenz's law, from the name of its formulator, by which all induced currents flow in such a direction that their reaction tends to stop the motion producing them. They thus, in fact, offer a mechanical resist ance, which is experienced by any conductor constrained to move across the lines of force in a magnetic field. A curious and striking instance can be given of this by suspending a metal disc by a twisted thread, between the poles of two powerful electro-magnets. While the magnets are inactive the disc revolves rapidly through the nu twisting of the thread, but directly the current passes through the coils the disc stops dead, and if forcibly compelled to rotate, grows rapidly hot, showing how powerful is the resistance encountered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Science of Energy written by Crosbie Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although we take it for granted today, the concept of "energy" transformed nineteenth-century physics. In The Science of Energy, Crosbie Smith shows how a North British group of scientists and engineers, including James Joule, James Clerk Maxwell, William and James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin, and P. G. Tait, developed energy physics to solve practical problems encountered by Scottish shipbuilders and marine engineers; to counter biblical revivalism and evolutionary materialism; and to rapidly enhance their own scientific credibility. Replacing the language and concepts of classical mechanics with terms such as "actual" and "potential" energy, the North British group conducted their revolution in physics so astutely and vigorously that the concept of "energy"—a valuable commodity in the early days of industrialization—became their intellectual property. Smith skillfully places this revolution in its scientific and cultural context, exploring the actual creation of scientific knowledge during one of the most significant episodes in the history of physics.
Download or read book Electricity the Science of the Nineteenth Century A Sketch for General Readers Etc written by Emma Marie Caillard and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Domesticating Electricity written by Graeme Gooday and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. Gooday shows how technology, authority and gender interacted in pre-World War I Britain. The rapid take-up of electrical light and domestic appliances on both sides of the Atlantic had a wide-ranging effect on consumer habits and the division of labour within the home. Electricity was viewed by non-experts as potential threat to domestic order and welfare. This broadly interdisciplinary study relates to a website developed by the author on the history of electricity.
Download or read book Transformations of Electricity in Nineteenth Century Literature and Science written by Stella Pratt-Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing electricity as a site for intense and imaginative Victorian speculation, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the synthesis of nineteenth-century electricity made possible by the powerful combination of science, literature and the popular imagination. With electricity resisting clear description, even by those such as Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell who knew it best, Pratt-Smith argues that electricity was both metaphorically suggestive and open to imaginative speculation. Her book engages with Victorian scientific texts, popular and specialist periodicals and the work of leading midcentury novelists, including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, William Makepeace Thackeray and Wilkie Collins. Examining the work of William Harrison Ainsworth and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Pratt-Smith explores how Victorian novelists attributed magical qualities to electricity, imbuing it with both the romance of the past and the thrill of the future. She concludes with a case study of Benjamin Lumley’s Another World, which presents an enticing fantasy of electricity’s potential based on contemporary developments. Ultimately, her book contends that writing and reading about electricity appropriated and expanded its imaginative scope, transformed its factual origins and applications and contravened the bounds of literary genres and disciplinary constraints.
Download or read book Geographies of Nineteenth Century Science written by David N. Livingstone and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority, and identity. Chapters from a distinguished range of contributors explore the places of creation, the paths of knowledge transmission and reception, and the import of exchange networks at various scales. Studies range from the inspection of the places of London science, which show how different scientific sites operated different moral and epistemic economies, to the scrutiny of the ways in which the museum space of the Smithsonian Institution and the expansive space of the American West produced science and framed geographical understanding. This volume makes clear that the science of this era varied in its constitution and reputation in relation to place and personnel, in its nature by virtue of its different epistemic practices, in its audiences, and in the ways in which it was put to work.
Download or read book Electricity the Science of the 19th Century written by Emma Marie Caillard and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of Electrical Technology in the 19th Century The early arc light and generator by W J King written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frankenstein s Children written by Iwan Rhys Morus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
